 | Joseph Priestley - God - 1787 - 602 pages
...fcrutiny, and from thofe who had deferted them, was (as we find from his epiftle toTrajan) as follows: " The whole of their fault, or error, lay in, " this, that they were wont to meet toge" ther on a ftated day, before it was light, " and fing among themfelves, alternately a " hymn... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Watson - Apologetics - 1805 - 516 pages
...emperor Trajan, concerning the primitive Chriftians, he thus writes, ** They affirmed that the \vhole of their fault or *' error lay in this ; that they were wont to meet *' together, on a dated day before it was light, and '* fing among themfelves, alternately, a hymn to " Chrift as a God,... | |
 | 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
...concerning other times all here present could bear witness. * They affirmed,' they solemnly attested, ' that the whole of their fault, or error, lay in this,...that they were wont to meet together on a stated day :' doubtless, meaning the Lord's-day, or Sunday : on which, as Justin relates particularly in his first... | |
 | 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. §... | |
 | Arminianism - 1872 - 1200 pages
...depressed state, a hymn from a street musician caught his ear, and affected him even to • "They affirmed, that the whole of their fault or error lay in this, that they were wont to meet together on a certain Ony, before it was light, and sing among themselves, alternately, n hymn to Christ as God ;... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
