 | 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 Party... | |
 | 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 party... | |
 | Robert Woodward - 1791 - 224 pages
...the inftitution of a number of ceremonies and Sacrifices, he has delivered us from that bondage and yoke, which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear, and in their room, befides baptifm, he has appointed but this folemn rite for us to obferve ; a folemnity... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...conquerors, through Him that loved us." — What a happy state is this ! — to be delivered from that yoke, " which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear ;" and to have no king but Jesus, whose " yoke is easy, and whose burthen is light ;" whose " service is perfect... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 426 pages
...power. Slat magni nominis umbra. Mankind is become too enlightened to submit again to the intolerable yoke, which " neither we nor our fathers were able to bear." And could these pages contribute, in the smallest degree, to this truly Christian emancipation, by leading... | |
 | 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... | |
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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? 
