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HISTORY

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ALL RELIGIONS.

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We are informed in the sacred scriptures, that pure religion does not consist in a set of notions or opinions, but that it is the working of divine truth on the heart; agreeably to these words, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself." But some may ask, how is it possible to love the Lord our God with all the heart, and our neighbours as ourselves, when the love of self is so closely united to our fallen nature? The Apostle has shown that it is possible for fallen nature to be restored, James 1. 27. "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Now whoever answers this description, most certainly loves his neighbour as himself; for though it be possible to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, without possessing the least pure religion; yet if, at the same time, such a visitor keeps himself unspot/

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