 | James Kirkpatrick - Dissenters, Religious - 1713 - 600 pages
...great Appearance of Zealj Efpoufe and Promote the Ceremonies and Licur'• gf of the Church of England, a Yoke which neither We, nor our ' Fathers were able to bear, and which this Nation would never fab' mit to, even in the Times of Prelacy ; but altho' the Jacobite... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1748 - 412 pages
...of Egypt, and out of the hwfe of bondage ; and hath fet us free fromPopim tyranny and fuperftition, a yoke which neither we nor our fathers •were able to bear: Who hath from time to time delivered ns from the bloody and mercilefs defigns of wicked and unreafonabtt... | |
 | Archibald Bruce - 1780 - 492 pages
...great appearance of zeal, efpoule and promote the ceremonies and liturgy of the church of England ; a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear, and which thii nation would never fubmit to, even in the times of prelacy ; but although the Jacobite... | |
 | 1821 - 948 pages
...why should we appear to give any countenance to those who wish to fix upon the necks of (he Germans a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear? Why should we not rather assist and exhort them to cast away those cords of spiritual bondage, and... | |
 | Visits - Christian life - 1829 - 544 pages
...was for ever rung in their ears : Were they not in a constant state of rebellion ? Why would you lay a ' yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear.' ' Whosoever is justified by the law is fallen from grace ;' why would you wish them to be again entangled... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Christianity - 1831 - 216 pages
...of the Christian Church) may be justly denominated, carnal ordinances ; "weak and beggarly elements; a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear."* We are, in all these and similar respects, to stand fast in "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made... | |
 | Robert Wodrow, Robert Burns - 1835 - 516 pages
...kingdom, lying in her tears, grief, and fear, may he delivered from the burdensome yoke of prelacy, a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear, a plant which our heavenly Falber hath not planted, and which never took, evea from the reformation... | |
 | Asa Bronson - Baptism - 1835 - 240 pages
...about the ' enlargement of privilege' under the gospel. The apostles considered that rite a burden or a 'yoke which neither we, nor our fathers were able to bear.' They pointedly disapproved of those teachers who taught the necessity or use of circumcision, liberated... | |
 | Sereno Edwards Dwight - Consanguinity - 1836 - 212 pages
...Peter, in addressing an assembly of Jews on that point, calls the law of Moses, which enjoined it, " a yoke, which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear," it is most obvious that he is speaking of the Ceremonial Law, and of that exclusively. Plainly, it... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...works ; as Peter also testifies (Acts xv.) concerning the law, " Why tempt ye God ; to lay upon us a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear. But we believe that by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved, as they." " I remember,"... | |
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Or shall we, with a far truer philosophy of the human soul, infer, in the language of St. Peter, that we have been laying on him "a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear? 
