 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves,...  The Eclectic Review - Page 402edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 606 pages
...preserve them from idolatry, and the immoral practices which heathenism diil not prohibit. " They were to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication." Nor are we authorized to assert, that the primitive apostles were, in every respect,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 802 pages
...choicest wines in his cellars, drinks some «f the meanest quality, Potet ace tarn." Acts. xv. 29. "That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood and from things strangled." — The following sentences in Tertullian's Apolog. adv. Gent. $ 9, shew that this advice was re. gardcd... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. JU '1 .at ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things »t runs-led, and from fornieation ; from whieh if ve keep > ourselves ye shall do well. Vnrv >i> well.... | |
 | Jesse Kersey - Society of Friends - 1815 - 130 pages
...them, and sent among their believing brethren of the Gentiles. " For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than...and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well." Acts xv. 2S, 29. But as they who... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...they recommend in their epistle, a burden. €spmr. Ver. 28. " It seemed good unto the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden, than these necessary things." Which word may lead us to think, they intend not such things as are in themselves reasonable, and always... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 654 pages
...et quod eleenio- abstineatLi ab idololhytis, et sanguine, et fornicaUone : et., * to the Holy Ghost, "and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these, which are necessary -* things : That ye abstain from tilings sacrificed to idols, and blood, and fornication... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...to us, to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29. That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell. 30. So being dismissed they... | |
 | Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 428 pages
...words of-the apostolical rescript, — " it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon yon no greater burden than these necessary things, —...and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication." It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to the apostles to lay no other restraint upon the... | |
 | James Plumptre - Animal welfare - 1816 - 98 pages
...and Paul to Jerusalem, to consult with the other apostles on the subject, their determination was: " That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled." (ACTS xv. 29.) And St. Paul, in the tenth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, advises... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...being assembled together in a council, they determined and announced to all Gentiles, that they should "abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled." (m) We have already exposed the falsehood of their pretensions in arrogating to themselves the title... | |
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