...the tradition of men, as he washing of pots and cups : and many other urh thing's ve do. Aud he saul unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Jut he answered and said unto them. Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by rour own tradition...

...his severe displeasure, sure, and meet with the same rebuke which he gave the Pharisees of old — ' full well ye reject the ' commandment of God, that ye may keep your ' own tradition1.' Ere I yet conclude this Letter, there is an observation or two due to a practice which...

...ironical. Nay, our Saviour himfelf thought fit thus to reprove the Jewiih doctors, when he fays, " Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition : Where, by the words,/«// well, or, as it is in the original, сал> . , it is very evident that...

...pretence of piety to God, they absolved men from theit obligation to support their aged parents." " Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition ; for Moses said, Honor thy father and mother ; but ye teach, that if a man shall say to his father...

...13. Yea, instead of embracing the instructions of Moses in his law, they rejected it altogether. " And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." So far were they from submitting to Moses' tuition, that they rejected his commandments, turned him...

...tradition in his own time. " Laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men." " Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." It is, then, of the essence of tradition, even of church tradition (for of such was he now speaking,...

...we not then say to the church of Rome, as Christ to the church of the Jews, in a parallel case, J " full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." i But if marriage be such a defilement as is unworthy a priest,/how came you to make a sacrament of...

...Jesus of the Jewish priests and Pharisees (Matthew xxiii.) " Full well (says Jesus in another place) ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." "I myself (says Paul to the Corinthians) was not burthensome to you ; forgive me this wrong !" Let...

...from which no private catholic is competent to dispute. — Unhappy men ! Deceivers and deceived ! " Full well ye •" reject the commandment of God, that ye may " keep your own tradition !"•f \ • REASON VI. The Roman Catholic system is favourable to the worst descriptions of TYRANNY,...

...other tracts after this manner ; ' Whom h the Lord reproves and blames ? in his gospel, saying : " Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tra' dition;"' ch. vii. 94. In the first book of Testimonies : « Likewise * in the gospel according...