primitive faith

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The evidence of Eusebius, on any subject connected with primitive faith and practice, cannot be looked to without feelings of deep interest.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell

That this Coöperation shall embrace such of the Churches contending for the primitive faith and order as shall willingly be placed upon the list of Churches printed in its Annual Report.

From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos

Idols may have come in to give a definite idea of superior power, and the primitive faith or impression obtained by Revelation seems to have mingled with their idolatry without any sense of incongruity.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Waller, Horace

In a true sense, the doctrines of Confucius were but the elaborated and succinctly stated implications of their primitive faith.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott