 | William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...together in singing hymns to Christ as to a deity ; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness ; to be guilty neither... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...and to join together in singing hymns to Christ as toa deity ; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness ; to be guilty... | |
 | William Jones - 1819 - 626 pages
...of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble before suu-rise, and to join together in singing hymns to Christ as to a deity; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness; to be guilty neither... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pages
...commencement of the second century, has the following interesting passage : — "These Christians are accustomed on a stated day to assemble before sun-rise,...together in singing hymns to Christ, as to a deity ; binding themselves, as with a solemn oath, not to commit any kind of wickedness; to be guilty neither... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 428 pages
...nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...together in singing hymns to Christ, as to a deity; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness; to be guilty neither... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 pages
...the name of crime or error ; namely, that they "What is said of Trajan ? Why then, if such were theii were accustomed on a stated day to assemble before...together in singing hymns to Christ, as to a deity ; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness; to be guilty neither... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...nature of the reSgion they had once professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error: viz. that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...together in singing hymns to Christ as to a Deity; binding themselves as with a solemn oath, not to commit wickedness of any kind ; neither to be guilty... | |
 | William Jones - 1832 - 642 pages
...nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...sun-rise, and to join together in singing hymns to Christ aa to a deity ; binding themselves as with a solemn oath not to commit any kind of wickedness ; to... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 pages
...nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble...together in singing hymns to Christ, as to a deity; binding themselves as with a solenri oath not to commit any kind of wickedness ; to be guilty neither... | |
 | 1835 - 606 pages
...God." Pliny, in his celebrated letter to Trajan, AD 10ß; or 107, says of the Christians in his time, that they were " accustomed, on a stated day, to assemble...together in singing hymns to Christ, as to a deity." But where have the apostles sanctioned Instrumental Music, by precept or example ? When and where did... | |
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And this was the account which they gave me of the nature of the religion they once had professed, whether it deserves the name of crime or error ; namely, that they were accustomed on a stated day to assemble before sunrise, and to join together in singing... 
