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

Christianity has developed; out of its primitive faith, several great theologies, the mediæval Papacy, Protestantism, and is now evidently advancing into new and larger forms of religious, moral, and social activity.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

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

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 many respects there was no possible assimilation; but so far as the simple tenets of the primitive faith were concerned, there was little or no difference.

From Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Boggs, John, Elder