...judgments whereby they should not live." — (Ezekiel xx. 24-25.) Peter also speaks of the Mosaic law as " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," (Acts xv. 10,) and Paul describes it as "a ministration of death."— (2 Cor. iii. 7.) Mr. Bradlaugh...

...impeach the law of righteousness as having been, not a source of joy to men, but, on the contrary, a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and from which, though it be in itself holy, just,, and good, men must be delivered by God and a joyful sense of God's...

...freedom, were to use 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. We do not believe that Great Britain has any true and lasting interests to subserve by such an alliance...

...— who had never been reconciled to the authority of the Eomans ; who were ever burning to cast off a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear — were driven to extremities by this Emperor, whose contumely was even more trying than the absolute...

...and Gentile, for even the Gentiles, the unclean, are purified by faith : he calls the law, xv. 1 0, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; he declares that Jews as well as Gentiles can only be saved through the grace of Christ, and that...

...merciful to Romanists. While it denied them no ecclesiastical benefit, it rent from off their necks a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. The jurisdiction which was abolished at the Reformation was a jurisdiction which ground down those...

...Jew and Gentile, for even the Gentiles, the unclean, are purified by faith: he calls the law, xv. 10, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; he declares that Jews as well as Gentiles can only be saved through the grace of Christ, and that...

...is frequently represented in the New Testament as a state of bondage and restraint. It is called " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ;" a schoolmaster, which kept men under a severe awe and discipline. It is represented as a prison,...

...subscription in framimg their Statutes. Certainly the Associate Founders were not the men to impose on others a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. The requirement by them of a literal and rigid and minute subscription would have been an inconsistency...

...indeed. He seems to disparage circumcision now as a Jewish institution. He speaks of it as imposing a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. What can he mean ? Has the recent experience of Barnabas and Saul overturned all his previous belief...