...refpe& to fuch angry reproachful Language, tells us, If any man among you feemeth to be Religious f and bridleth not his Tongue , but deceiveth his own Heart, that man's Religion is vain, i James 3.6. And yet I need not tell any Man, how com.mon this pra&ice is. ..;••.. t .,i / ..:...

...feafoned with Salt, that ye may know how ye ought to anfwer every Man. 8 If any Man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his Tongue, but deceiveth his own Heart, this Man's Religion is vain. Heb. i2. i. a Luke i. 6. 2 Cht. 3i. 2o. Num. i4. 24. Luke i.6. hi Tim....

...Privileges, than all that the Zealot Jew can boaft of his Mofaicd Inftitution. 26 If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure Religion, afad undefiled bsfore God and the Father, is this, to...

...abundance of the heart the mouth fpeaketh. So St. James tells us, chap. i. 26. If any man among youfeem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own Jieart ; this man's religion is vain. And on the contrary, it is a good fign that religion hath fome...

...religious. It is an obfervation of St. James, already taken notice of. If any man among you feemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. And the truth of that obfervation is confirmed by what has been faid under the foregoing particular,...

...day in company with others ? James i. 26. If any man among you feem to be religious, and britileth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain: and confequentlyall hedothisfin. (2.) Have I endeavoured to bt edify ing in my difcourfe? Eph. iv....

...it, in the government of our words, and ordering of our lives, ver. 26. " If any man among you feem to be religious, " and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own " heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure reli" gion, and undefiled before GOD and the FA* ** THER is this,...

...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man {hall be bleffed in his deed. If any man among you feeni to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain. |]Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To viiit...

...evil-furmifings, bitternefs, anger, clamour, and evil-fpeaking : and declares, that if any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart ; this man's religion is vain. Our Saviour likewife admonifhes us : Judge not, that ye be not judged....

...Soul is to be known and felt by ourfelves, and made manifeft to others. " If any man among you feem to be " religious, and bridleth not his tongue, " but deceiveth his own heart, this " man's religion is vain. He here gives us, in the firft place, a kind of negative proof, by which...