Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Grantley Manor : a Tale - Page 35by Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 605 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1806 - 658 pages
...vain. The pure and undenled religion before God and the Father is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Alleluia, Alleluia. V. Alleluia, Alleluia V. Christ is risen, and hath Surrexit Christus, et illuxit... | |
| Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 pages
...pure religion and undented, before God even the Father, is this, to visit the widow and fatherless in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.' It is something surely that they hold with you, that ' the grace of God hath appeared to all men, teaching... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold - Sermons, American - 1830 - 492 pages
...them. St. James indeed tells us, that " pure and undefiled religion, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world;" from which it would seem, that works of benevolence and purity of life, are what God requires as necessary... | |
| First Church (Salem, Mass.) - Church controversies - 1832 - 182 pages
...is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of... | |
| J. A. Boddy - 1834 - 212 pages
...says, ' Pure and undented religion before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world,' Miss Harcourt is religious; but as to being dull and gloomy, I can't say, for I never saw any body... | |
| Jacob Henry B. Mountain - Sermons, English - 1835 - 482 pages
..." pure religion, and undefiled before GOD and the Father, is this, To visit M 5 the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world ;" that is, to do all the good in our power, and to abstain from all evil; and undoubtedly in labours... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...vain. Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. 11. — My brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partial regard for... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...Christian is a living contradiction. " Pure and undefiled religion, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world." Visiting and administering to the necessities of our fellow-men, imply action ; and as to keeping unspotted... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1845 - 428 pages
...vain ;" and, " Pure and undefilsd religion before God, even the Father, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world." This is equivalent to righteousness and humanity. It is, then, never used in the Bible at all in the... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - Religious fiction - 1847 - 326 pages
...in the daily tenor of her life, he saw exemplified that simple type of pure religion, and undefiled, which St. James in a few short words describes : " To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world : " then, to the passion which had sprung... | |
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