| William Smith - 1803 - 584 páginas
...and undented before God (our " Saviour) and the Father, is This — To visit the «' Fatherless and Widows in their affliction, and to <( keep ourselves unspotted from the world." But the fervent Apostle St. Paul, of all others, with his usual zeal, enters the fullest into this... | |
| 1807 - 612 páginas
...of that kind, which leads to parity of life, and which influences us to •MBit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world, what does it profit ? If we find, that our religion does not consist in sell-denial ; if it docs not... | |
| John Bellamy - 1813 - 458 páginas
...Christ enjoins us to observe all things whatsoever he has commanded us ; to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction ; and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. But the morality which is usually meant, is the morality of the world, and not of Christ. The morality... | |
| 1817 - 436 páginas
...that " pure religion, and undcfiled before God and the Father is this : to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world," Jam. i. 27. " To do good and to communicate," says Paul, " forget not; for with such sacrifices God... | |
| 1817 - 464 páginas
...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 permanent legacy to his followers —... | |
| 1818 - 896 páginas
...ilxtext. " True religion, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless children and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world." Here are two moral duties mentioned, each of which is of high importance and necessity ; but it would... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 páginas
...the touchstones of the truth of our piety and 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,... | |
| 1819 - 612 páginas
...is acceptable in the sight of God our heavenly Father, will teach us ''to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world." In the same degree that we do this, in the degree that we do good to others, and are pure and holy... | |
| 1819 - 414 páginas
...of " Pure religion and undented hefore God and the Father," which is " to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and. to keep ourselves unspotted from the world." Neither am I so infatuated with it, as to admire oil I see and hear in snch representations . hut prefer... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1820 - 494 páginas
...godliness, were strenuous in duty and unmoved in trial, and abounding in that pure religion and undejiled before God and the Father, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep themselves unspotted from the world ; that the families met here, in whose... | |
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