 | Elisha Bates - 1825 - 340 Seiten
...held together. For these, and other reasons which might be assigned, we freely concur in setting apart the first day of the week, as a day of rest and relaxation, to be devoted to public worship, and religious improvement ; without a superstitious veneration... | |
 | 1827 - 50 Seiten
...mediation and intercession; regarding him in no higher point of view, than as a blessed example and holy pattern. Not satisfied with the clear and sublime...moved thereto, which would sometimes happen to be at the time the assembly were about to separate. Against the consistent members of the Society of Friends,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 Seiten
...they declared it to be an allegory, designed to convey some deep spiritual meaning; they mysterized the description of the garden of Eden into a metaphorical...to be just as the assembly were about to separate. > The avidity with which undisciplined and superficial minds grasp at every thing that is clad in the... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1829 - 360 Seiten
...together. For these, and other reasons which might be»assigned, we freely concur in setting apart the first day of the week, as' a day of rest and relaxation, to be devoted to public worship and religious improvement ; without a superstitious veneration... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - 1845 - 216 Seiten
...originated in sectarian intolerance, and in ignorance of the nature of truth. To the observance of the first day of the week as a day of rest and relaxation, few persons will be found to object; but if there are others who choose to employ it in... | |
 | 1848 - 420 Seiten
...the creator, correspond with what their forefathers believed and taught; so also the observance of the first day of the week as a day of rest, and of reading and hearing the law. But what was the cause of that day being so observed, they could not... | |
 | 1849 - 636 Seiten
...held together. For these, and other reasons which might be assigned, we freely concur in setting apart the first day of the week, as a day of rest and relaxation, to be devoted to public worship and religious improvement ; without a superstitious veneration... | |
 | Sir William Domville - 1849 - 410 Seiten
...ask, Did they meet on the first of those occasions, and consequently on the second, for the purpose of observing the first day of the week as a day of Christian worship ? I have in the examination of the Texts Nos. I. and II. shown this to be impossible.... | |
 | 1850 - 534 Seiten
...the creator, correspond with what their forefathers believed and taught ; so also the observance of the first day of the week as a day of rest, and of reading and hearing the law. But what was the cause of that day being so observed, they could not... | |
 | 1841 - 524 Seiten
...abolished tlieSabbi'a, but introduced a similar institution in its place, ike & scrvance, namely, of the first day of the week as a day of rest and of religious worship, in commemoration of God's resting on the seventh day, and also more especially... | |
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... as a civil and political institution, the first day of the week as a day of rest, and may prohibit upon it the performance of any manner of labor, business or work, except only works of necessity or charity. 
