 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...here repeat only one example. Pliny, in his letter to Trajan, speaks to this effect. " They affirm that the whole of their fault or error lay in this,...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 - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 714 pages
...three years ' ago, some longer, and one, or more, above twenty years. They all worshipped your image, 4 and the statues of the gods: these also reviled Christ....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 - Theology - 1787 - 588 pages
...Quod 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 - Theology - 1824 - 528 pages
...he went with proconsular authority, writes, that " Certain Christians whom he had examined, affirmed that they were wont to meet .together on a stated...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 - Apologetics - 1824 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...longer, and one or more above twenty years. They all worshipped your image, and the statues of the cods ; these also reviled Christ. They affirmed that the...among themselves, alternately, a hymn to Christ as (rod ; and birut themselves by an oath, not to tJie commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty... | |
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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 it was light, and sing among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ, as a god, and bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission... 
