primitive faith
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Eastern nations early substituted Nature worship for the primitive faith, 600-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Active prayer and pure love are the elements of this faith, which is born of the Roman Church but returns to the Christianity of the primitive faith.
From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Then comes protest, repudiation, reform, and usually a new revelation, embodying the primitive faith, and adapting it to modern times and conditions.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
In 1674, there were at Wamesit fifteen families, or seventy-five souls, enumerated as Christian Indians, aside from about two hundred who adhered to their primitive faith in the Great Spirit.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various
The simple naïveté with which he expresses this skin-deep and primitive faith is, indeed, one of the chief sources of charm in the 'Noble Numbers.'
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
