 | Hannah More - 1803 - 474 pages
...principle as the effect of piety—" True religion, and undefiled " before God and the Father, is this: to visit the " fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to " keep himself unspotted from the world." Now, if Christianity insists that obedience to the latter injunction be the true evidence of... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - 1815 - 384 pages
...disciple of our Lord, assures us that " pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (chap. i. 17.) Now, these spots of the world are easily known. " All that is in the world,... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pages
...than that by St. James, i. 27. " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." There are, certainly, good and bad men among all sects ; and perhaps, it would be difficult... | |
 | 1818 - 396 pages
...than that by St. James, i. 27. " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and 'to keep himself unspotted from the world." There are, certainly, good" and bad men among all sects ; and perhaps, it would' be difficult... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 pages
...holiness. " This is pure religion,'' saith St. James, " and undefiled before God and the Father, to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." " If any man say," saith St. John, " I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar," &c.... | |
 | 1821 - 788 pages
...part. ' Pure religion and undcfiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless und widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.' This, Talkative is not aware of; he thinks that hearing and saying- will make a good Christian, and thus... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 pages
...religion is the practice part : " Pure religion, and undefined, before God and the Father," is this : "To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions,...and to keep himself unspotted from the world,"* This Talkative is not aware of; he thinks that hearing and saying will make a good Christian : and thus... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 pages
...religion is the practical part: *' pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions,...and to keep himself unspotted from the world"." This Talkative is not aware of; he thinks that hearing and saying will make a good Christian ; and thus... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - 1824 - 490 pages
...witnesseth, saying, Religio pura, &c., " Pure religion, and undefiled before God, and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." It is a common speech amongst the people, and much used, that they say, all religious houses... | |
 | William Ford Vance - 1827 - 376 pages
...is of God." St. James moreover describes the effects of pure and undefined religion to be this, " To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." And again, (in iv. 4.) He says, "The friendship of the world is enmity with God, whosoever,... | |
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Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from the world*. 
