 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1833 - 512 pages
...darkness to the marvellous light of the gospel, till you are both hearers of the word and doers also. " For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer,...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." APPENDIX. THE writer of these Discourses has drawn up the following compilation of pu sages from Scripture,... | |
 | Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1833 - 530 pages
...God's word, consists the right use of this Book. This St. James teaches us, when he says, If any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like...face in a glass ; for he beholdeth himself and goeth hit way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Whereas the wise and faithful hearers... | |
 | Sermons - 1833 - 652 pages
...Be ye, therefore, doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves; for if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like...natural face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself, and straightway forgetteth what manner of person he was." If the warnings and threatenings of .he law,... | |
 | Francis Close - Sermons, English - 1834 - 462 pages
...man's device ! SERMON II. ON HEARING THE WORD. JAMES i. 22—25. " BUT BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD, AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVES. FOR IF...BEHOLDETH HIMSELF, AND GOETH HIS WAY, AND STRAIGHTWAY FORGETf ETH WHAT MANNER OF MAN HE WAS. BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY, AND CONTINUETH... | |
 | James Backhouse - Australia - 1834 - 92 pages
...ourselves, whilst those who seldom think of these things, are not much concerned about doing them, and are like unto a man, " Beholding his natural face in a...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." 27th. Having for some time past apprehended it would be in the line of our religious duty, to take... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1835 - 636 pages
...same, through our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Amen. The Epistle. St. James i. 22 BE ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein ; he being not a forgetful hearer,... | |
 | Robert Yarker - 1835 - 64 pages
...same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."t " Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but... | |
 | 1835 - 604 pages
...same, through our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Amen. The Epistle. St. James i. 22 BE ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein ; he being not a forget ful hearer,... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1835 - 524 pages
...law shall be justified." " Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own souls. For if any be a ' hearer of the word, and not a doer,...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but... | |
 | William Allen (of Peel.) - 1835 - 702 pages
...want of wisdom. This, indeed, is intimated by St. James, in the verses that immediately follow : — " For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,...straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." By this elegant comparison, he exposes the folly of such conduct. To hear, and not to act according... | |
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway... 
