Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. Companions of My Solitude - Pagina 104door Sir Arthur Helps - 1854 - 284 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| English literature - 1831 - 244 pagina’s
...as ' Pure religion, and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this ; to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.' 1 Further, the relative duties of,husbands and wives, of parents and children, of masters and servants,... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1836 - 140 pagina’s
...it. " Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Religious worship will not be the mere service of the sanctuary. The universe will be God's temple,... | |
| 1840 - 430 pagina’s
...knew that " pure religion and nndetiled " was said to consist in " visiting the widow and fatherless in their affliction," and to keep oneself " unspotted from the world." And am not I a widow ? thought Mrs. Featherstone to herself, and is not my child fatherless ? Why, then,... | |
| 1844 - 424 pagina’s
...man." " Pure religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Who that has ever seen or felt the stains that the world so readily blots upon the soul, who that has... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 326 pagina’s
...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 up in his heart, was joined a reverent and intense admiration,... | |
| Lady Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 324 pagina’s
...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 up in his heart, was joined a reverent and intense admiration,... | |
| Benjamin Parsons - 1848 - 312 pagina’s
...the Scriptures, we are led to conclude that, though James said, that " To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world, is pure religion before God the Father," yet he could not have meant, that these are the whole of religion.... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1848 - 366 pagina’s
...portraiture which God has given of pure and undefiled religion, which is, 'To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.' I would have you, my dear Lady Grace, enter at once upon a life of active usefulness. Accompany your... | |
| Henry Moule - 1849 - 256 pagina’s
...of opinion, or of talking, but a religion of belief and of action. It is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. The faith, which justifies and saves, works thus by love. And this is the victory, too, that overcometh... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1850 - 408 pagina’s
...and undefiled before God and our Father', but pure enjoyment, is this, ' to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world'." " I remember, when I was a child," said Gertrude, " that dear Ferdinand gave you an account, which... | |
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