...into so many precepts, and those many of them so expensive and burdensome, that the apostle calls it a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, Acts xv.10. and elsewhere, a yoke of bondage, Gal. v. 1. Thus, while the eternal Word tabernacled among...

...of magnifying that law which was within his heart, and thus to exonerate the people from so galling a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Though Lord and Master he becomes servant to the church, and works out for her in that capacity a righteousness...

...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 now to be ushered in by the Messiah, Zacharias announces, in this sublime...

...contrary, many of these parents, who have tasted of the word, wish their children to be liberated from a yoke, which neither they, nor their fathers were able to bear. By these means, there are two nan added to the number of avowed converts, in that vicinity, since Uie...

...and painful. So that as a system of observances, St. Peter does not hesitate to declare, that it was a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. On the other hand, the Christian worship, though not disdaining all ceremonies, employs those only,...

...Pharisees. The law of ceremonies imposed upon the Jews by Moses, is styled by St. Paul £yyoc cîoi/Xeiaç, Gal. v. l : and by St. Peter a yoke which neither...imposed upon them : and the burdens which besides tliis the Pharisees laid upon them by their traditions, are styled by our Lord форт'ш ßapea /caí...

...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...

...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...

...acknowledged to be in many respects extremely burdensome; insomuch that St.Peter describes it to be "a yoke which " neither they nor their fathers were able to " bear a ." The multiform religions of the heathen world consisted of little else than ceremonial institutions;...

...of the ceremonies of the Jews might well be applied to those of the church of Rome, that they were a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear : that it was not by means of ceremonies, but by the promulgation of the word of God, after the example...