| Henry Grove - 1812 - 196 pages
...appointed, and which rendered that fervice fo burdenfome, that an Apoftle of Chrift fcrupies not to call it a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; the Chriftian church hath no other obfervances of a ritual nature, but thofe two fimple and eafy ones... | |
| John Owen - 1814 - 628 pages
...pride of their spirits, and to cause them to breathe after deliverance. This, the apostle Peter calls a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, Acts xv. 10. that is, with peace, rase and rest ; which, therefore, the Lord Christ invited them fo seek for, in... | |
| John Parkhurst - 1817 - 890 pages
...Tkeyoke of legal ordinances, ocr. Acts xv. 10. Gal. v. ]. And as in the former passage !t is described as a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, so in the latter it is called a yoke of bondage or slavery, in opposition to which, especially as aggravated... | |
| 1876 - 818 pages
...deprecated using "our power in helping to fasten on the necks of the oppressed subjects of the Porte a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." It denounced as execrable an " alliance with a cruel and criminal despotism ; " and earnestly hoped... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...Jews and Gentiles into one body or church, having freed the former from the law of ordinances — " a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," and brought the latter out of darkness and idolatry into a new state of existence, " into his marvellous... | |
| Godfrey Faussett - 1820 - 398 pages
...authority is at least as much depressed now, as it was before exalted ; that, exulting in their escape from a " yoke which neither " they nor their fathers were able to bear," they formed far too extravagant an idea of that " liberty e wherewith Christ has made " them free;"... | |
| Thomas Morell - 1821 - 542 pages
...recently adopted by the powers of Europe towards the Spanish nation, when they nobly resolved to throw off a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, , is it not more than probable, that the plains of that kingdom would have been at this moment saturated... | |
| Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 506 pages
...would obtain by becoming his disciples. And certain it is, that the observation of those rites was a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, and from which Christ did at the proper time release his followers : wherefore, he might be justly... | |
| George Townsend - 1825 - 680 pages
...be done by them, whereby they might become polluted, and incur the anger of their God. This law was a yoke which neither they, nor their fathers, were able to bear. But in the law which was new to be ushered in by the Messiah, Zachariah announces, in this sublime... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 636 pages
...dispute about a judgment of their nature, but the necessity of their observation, when he calls them ' a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ;' Acts xv. 10. And when St. Paul gives a charge to believers, 'to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath... | |
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