 | William Paley - 1810 - 436 pagina’s
...relinquished the society, or who, to save themselves, pretended that they had relinquished it, affirmed that they were wont to meet together, on a stated day, before it was light, and sang among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ as a God ; and to bind themselves, by an oath, not... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 416 pagina’s
...something like an examination into the conduct and principles of the sect? He discovered nothing, but that they were wont to meet together on a stated day before it was light, and sing among themselves a hymn to Christ as a God, and to * Roman*, xii. fi.— xiii. 13. bind themselves by an oath, not to... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pagina’s
...relinquished the society, or who, to save themselves, pretended that they had relinquished it, affirmed that they were wont to meet together, on a stated day, before it was light, and sang among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ as a God; and to bind themselves by an oath, not... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pagina’s
...Trajan, speaks to this effect. " They affirm that the whole of their fault or error lay in this, that they were wont to meet together on a stated day, before it was light, and bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty of theft,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 714 pagina’s
...these also reviled Christ. They affirmed that the whole of their ' fault, or error, lay in this, that they were wont to meet together on a stated day before...among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ, as a god, and bind themselves ' by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 588 pagina’s
...esseut soliti stato die ante lucem convenire, carmenque Chrisfo, quasi Deo, dicere secum invicem. That they were wont to meet together on a stated day before it was light, rm.l sing among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ, as a God." Lardner, VII. pp. 292, 293. §... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 528 pagina’s
...went with proconsular authority, writes, that " Certain Christians whom he had examined, affirmed that they were wont to meet .together on a stated day,...among themselves, alternately, a hymn to Christ, as to some God." This letter is, with the highest probability, placed in the year 107. Celsus, an eminent... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...relinquished the society, or who, to save themselves* pretended that they had relinquished it, affirmed fhat they were wont to meet together on a stated day, before it was light, and sans among thempelves alternately a hymn to Christ as a God ; and to bind themselves by an oath, not... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 426 pagina’s
...relinquished the society, or who, to save themselves* pretended that they had relinquished it, affirmed that they were wont to meet together on a stated day, before it was light, and sang among themselves alternately a bymn to Christ as a God ; and to bind themselves by an oath, not... | |
 | Thomas William Lancaster - 1825 - 494 pagina’s
...conduct and practices of that sect : " That the whole of their fault, or error, lay in " this ; that they were wont to meet together on a " stated day...among " themselves alternately a hymn to Christ, as a God; " and to bind themselves by an oath, not that they " would commit any kind of wickedness, but... | |
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God, and bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor to deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to return it. 
