| Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...ourselves*. The Apostle declares, that pure religion and undejiled before God, and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world^. To such dispositions, to such virtues, can any limitations be fixed... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 982 pages
...ourselves*. The Apostle declares, that pure religion and undejiled before God, and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted front the worUhf. To such dispositions, to such virtues, can any limitations be fixed... | |
| Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - Education - 1812 - 648 pages
...pledge and produce of " pure and undented Religion before God and the Father," which prompted him " to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Happy would it be for the cause of real religion, if, like this... | |
| Missions - 1832 - 644 pages
...obedience rather than sacrifice. " True religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" Do you seek to promote the interests of religion by such compliances?... | |
| 1817 - 464 pages
...infinitely higher authority, that " pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world ;" that He ' who went about doing good,' has left the poor as a... | |
| Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...man's religion is vain j" and that " pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in •their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Faith in Christ, if it do not produce; these effects, he declareth,... | |
| George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...friends to espouse their quarrel. Pure reli. gion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless, and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. And yet there are none so ready to be trampled upon, * Prov. i. 22.... | |
| Arminianism - 1823 - 908 pages
...matter up in purity and charity. " Pure religion, and undefiled before GOD and the FATHER, is this ; To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James i. 27.) Religion requires faith and worship too : but the... | |
| William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825 - 632 pages
...Psahn xxvii. 1. 36. !'." tells us, that " Pure religion and undefined before God and the Father, is, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted of the world." So that the thing which is an especial refined dialect of the new... | |
| Methodist Church - 1828 - 506 pages
...be his apologist, who says that " pure religion and undefined before God and the Father is this, — to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction^ and to keep himself unspotted from the world." But our brother needs no apology : his foundtiticm was sure and... | |
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