| Nathan Bangs - Theology, Doctrinal - 1815 - 336 pages
...mean to pass an indiscriminate censuro upon all christians, is evident from what follows in ver. 2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Here then he admits the possibility, and teaches the necessity of a man's not offending even in word,... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Natural sin - 1815 - 290 pages
...Resolved to endeavour to make sure of that sign the apostle James gives of a perfect man, Jam. iii. 2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Monday, July 22. — I see there is danger of my being drawn into transgression by a fear of seeming... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...very common among the Jewish people, and against exercising it with too great rigour and severity. " My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation," if we offend, which it is verv difficult to avoid : " for in many things we all offend. If any man... | |
| 1815 - 608 pages
...shall undergo the greater judgment. 2. For in many things we all offend. It' any offend not in word, he is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3. Behold we put bridles into the horses' mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole... | |
| 1817 - 436 pages
...himself that the fire of hell is not quenched within him ; whereas, on the other hand, ver. 2. if a man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and gives proof that he is a real Christian, able to curb that member which is the most restless, and if... | |
| James Plumptre - Animal welfare - 1816 - 98 pages
...where he is speaking of the unruly nature of the tongue, and the great offences committed by it: " My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we...perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. But we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body."... | |
| Arminianism - 1817 - 370 pages
...believers ! Secondly, from the words preceding the text : ' My brethren, be not many masters or teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all.' We ! Who ! Not the apostles nor true believers, but they who were to 'receive the greater condemnation,'... | |
| James Hardie - Freemasonry - 1818 - 392 pages
...tongue, keeps his soul. The apostle James, in speaking on the same subject, thus expresseth himself, " if any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold , jve put bits in the horses mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1818 - 432 pages
...as necessary as it is difficult. For we are told from divine authority, " If any man oft'end not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." I will conclude this little essay with a caution to scolding mistresses : a wholesome caution borrowed... | |
| Henry Moore - Christian biography - 1818 - 472 pages
...worthy our strictest and most earnest endeavours ; since the apostle says — " He that offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." The next Friday after this family meeting, I proposed as a fast ; — at twelve we were to meet for... | |
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