primitive faith

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Though the primitive faith and purity exerted a wide-spread and moulding power, yet its influence became less and less as the numbers increased of those who sought only worldly advantage.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

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 Pike, Albert

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

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

I imagined a little colony, so animated by primitive faith, love, and disinterestedness, that the collective moral influence of all might interpret and enforce the words of the few who preached.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William