...though he carried the matter to excess. In order to speak well, we must speak but little, remembring always the maxim of St. James, If any man seem to...bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain, chap. i. 26. In fine, the great rule to govern the tongue is to govern the heart. Keep thy heart with...

...account thereor in the day of judgment :" [Matth. xii. 36.] And an apoftle fays, " If any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain:" £ yam. i. 26.3 And they muft watch againft, avoid and fupprefs aH finful, vain and idle thoughts and...

...practice. But there was some reason in the conduct of this Kecmit, though he carried the matter to excess. In order to speak well, we must speak but little,...If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not It is tongue, this man's religion is vain, chap. i. 26. In fine, the great rule to govern the tongue...

...ministering grace to the hearers," we shall only provoke the imputation of hypocrisy. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." But by a steadfast adherence to.the course, recommended in the text, we shall be induced, as opportunities...

...warns us, that ' the tongue can no man tame;' and yet, continues this apostle, ' if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain' Thoroughly theological, informed and experienced, serious and searching, interesting and improving,...

...We should, therefore, take heed to our ways, that, in this respect, we sin not with our tongues. " If any man seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." James, i. 26. Contentious and angry talkers,...

...thought the most important, a sufficient test of our state before God,; for he affirms universally, that if any man seem to be religious, and *{ bridleth not his tongue, hi's religion is vain." And again he assures us, that " whoever will be " a. friend of the world, is...

...kindness, is an inconsistent, romantic notion, a contradiction in terms. For, as St. James says, " If any man seem to be religious, and " bridleth not his tongue — this man's religion is vain':" ' Junes i. 26. so it may be justly, and by parity of reason, said in gene-. ral, that if any man "...

...the most important, a sufficient test of our state before God ; for he affirms universally, that " if any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, his religion is vain." And again he assures us, that " whoever will be a friend of the world, is the...

...pride, anger, wrath and malice reign in our hearts, and govern our lives, all our religion is hypocrisy. If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue he deceiveth his own Iteart, betrays the perverseness and malignity of his disposition, that man's...