primitive faith

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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

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

It remains to show that the idea is not a mere figment devised to adorn a tale, but is a real article of primitive faith, which has given rise to a corresponding set of customs.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

The dance of the Corybantic priests, like that of the priests who represented the Curetes, may have originated in a primitive faith in the power of noise to avert evil.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

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