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. "Show Us the Father" - Page 1021888 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bunyan - 1853 - 352 pages
...The soul of religion is the practical part. " 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." l This, Talkative is 1 James i. 27 ; see also verses 22 — 26.... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...Christianity. A Christian must live a Christ-like life. "Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world."— James 1 127. Paul saw the heavenly vision and was obedient to... | |
| Frances Fay - 1853 - 272 pages
...you have given that passage a very different connection from that which it holds in the Scriptures. ' To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world,' is what God tells us is 'pure religion and undefiled.' You are a... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1853 - 128 pages
...Syracuse, scoffing at modern men, who " perilled their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep themselves unspotted from the world ! — think of him threatening with the gallows such as clothed... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1853 - 124 pages
...Syracuse, scoffing at modern men, who " perilled their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep themselves unspotted from the world ! — think of him threatening with the gallows such as clothed... | |
| 1876 - 832 pages
...WIDOW'S OIL. THE Lord has taught 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 ourselves unspotted from the world. The care of God over the widowed and the orphaned is a matter of... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1853 - 116 pages
...Syracuse, scoffing at modern men, who " perilled their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep themselves unspotted from the world ! — think of him threatening with the gallows such as clothed... | |
| George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...Syracuse, scoffing at modern men, who " perilled their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep themselves unspotted from the world ! — think of him threatening with the gallows such as clothed... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...will do what he can. Nothing could be more promising. What, then, shall he do ? What he ought to do is this : — To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction ; to lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees ; to please not himself, but his neighbour... | |
| Charles Francis Rollin Shehane - 1854 - 194 pages
...false faith. We are told by St, James 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." — James 1 : 27. This corresponds very well with Micah 6: 8. "... | |
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