| 1843 - 1056 pages
...that they should be. And yet this extended ritual is spoken of by the Apostles as a yoke — a heavy yoke — which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, Acts 15 : 10. It is a mercy to the Christian church, that this yoke of ceremonies, being no longer demanded,... | |
| Richard Baxter, Leonard Bacon - 1844 - 628 pages
...power to justify. They were said therefore to be in bondage to the law ; and the law was said to be a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; Acts xv. And by the spirit of adoption is meant, 1. That spirit, or those qualifications or workings in their... | |
| Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1844 - 370 pages
...emancipated from the old error. They demanded for their new disciples exemption from the burdensome ritual, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Acts xv. 10. They said that nothing which God had cleansed, none of his creatures, children, should be pronounced... | |
| August Neander - 1844 - 350 pages
...186. Note. t Thus Peter calls the law in its whole extent, contrasted with the grace of redemption, " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Acts iv. 10. universal revelation of God in the creation, ind through that in the reason and conscience,... | |
| Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1844 - 382 pages
...ordinances as "carnal ordinances" imposed upon the people of Israel for a time. St. Peter calls it a yoke which neither they, nor their fathers were able to bear. It was a system of shadows, under which were represented to the mind endowed with spiritual discernment,... | |
| 1843 - 522 pages
...that they should be. And yet this extended ritual is spoken of by the Apostles as a yoke — a heavy yoke — which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, Acts 15 : 10. It is a mercy to the Christian church, that this yoke of ceremonies, being no longer demanded,... | |
| German correspondent of "The Continental echo.", J. W. Carr - 1846 - 504 pages
...still rejoice in the hope that good will ultimately be done by their having emancipated themselves from a yoke, which "neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Would that they may be prevented using their liberty to the extent of licentiousness ; and, rejecting... | |
| 1848 - 602 pages
...magnitude, and the bondage which they engendered compared with gospel institutions and liberty, styles them a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, and from which the disciples of Christ are now happily freed. The brother who wrote the preceding article... | |
| 1845 - 586 pages
...Peter bore witness before the first Council of Jerusalem that the bondage of Jewish ordinances was a yoke " which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." When the Son of God came, the souls that he made free were " free indeed," but their bodies were often... | |
| George Smith - 1850 - 40 pages
...Christ ; and others, heartily sick of the Pope, availed themselves of the opportunity of casting off a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. In the former category we may place the Elector of Saxony, an ancestor of our own Prince Albert, —... | |
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