 Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : to visit the fatherless and widows, in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.  Dilemmas of Pride - Sida 110efter Dilemmas, Margracia Loudon - 1833Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 sidor
...Christ. James declares that pure religion and undefiled before God and the leather is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world: James i. 27. He asserts that a man is justified by works and not by faith only, and that faith is dead... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 sidor
...word is used in St. James: Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world. (James i. 2J.) But in a more restrained sense it is taken for that part of duty which particularly... | |
 | 1824 - 342 sidor
...humbly with thy God?" "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the. Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world;" that is, to perform offices of compassion and charity, and shun the vices that prevail in the community... | |
 | 1859 - 632 sidor
...be, that, far from leading an indifferent life, he must, for his own sake, become a visitor of the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself " unspotted from the world." And ag.un, who that knows anything of the leadings of the Spirit, has not ofttimes been obliged to... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 sidor
...will of his " heavenly Father ;" and he knows that, conformably with that will, be must " relieve the fatherless and " widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted " from the world." (n) He considers it his duty, and finds it his delight, to please God, and render as far as possible... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 340 sidor
...will of his " heavenly Father ;" and he knows that, conformably with that will, be must " relieve the fatherless and " widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted " from the world." (») He considers it his duty, and finds it his delight, to please God, and render as far as possible... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 sidor
...he will cease to cavil against its doctrines ; he will soon believe it to be so. Let him visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world, and he will carry in his own bosom such a comfortable earnest of the truth of the Gospel, as he will... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 sidor
...also, in the body." "Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : to visit the fatherless and widows, in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world." I quote these passages, not with a view to critical comment, but to show the general spirit and strain... | |
 | 1834 - 68 sidor
...particular there, nor is it illustrated by cuts. filed before God and the Father is this ; to visit the fatherless, and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world." (James i. 27.) Respecting the clothes of the Greenlanders we find some very curious accounts in a book... | |
 | Gregory Townsend Bedell, Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1835 - 584 sidor
...of God." St. James describes the effect of pure and un denied religion to be this — " To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world." And again he says — " The friendship of the world is enmity with God." St. John gives this advice... | |
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