 | Stephen Higginson Tyng - Law and gospel - 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,... | |
 | Richard Baxter, Leonard Bacon - Dissenters, Religious - 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... | |
 | German correspondent of "The Continental echo.", J. W. Carr - German Catholicism - 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... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 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 on the nature... | |
 | Christian life - 1845 - 586 pages
...St. 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, —... | |
 | Bible - 1851 - 774 pages
...institutions "beggarly elements," and "the law of a carnal commandment;" and another allows, that they formed 43:11— 15. El. 12:16. 1 3 And y the blood shall be to you for — But if we look carefully into the New Testament, we shall be convinced, that these ordinances,... | |
 | Richard Pengilly - Baptism - 1851 - 84 pages
...this Divine gift, I find not; but enough to show me that they looked upon the code of Jewish rites as "a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ;" Acts xv. 10. It is clear, and readily admitted, that many cf the professed Jewish converts, especially... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - Bible - 1894 - 616 pages
...Pauline ideas. Peter declares that God put no distinction between Jews and Gentiles ; and terms the law a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. James himself declares the right of all the Gentiles to the privileges of Christianity. Thus Paul on... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1852 - 228 pages
...certain who would have imposed the ceremonial law of Moses on the Gentile converts, spoke of it as a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; and, assuredly, with all its various rites and ceremonies, it was a heavy and expensive burden. But the... | |
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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. 
