...merciful to Romanists. While it denied them no ecclesiastical benefit, it rent from off their necks a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. The jurisdiction which was abolished at the Reformation was a jurisdiction which ground down those...

...Jew and Gentile, for even the Gentiles, the unclean, are purified by faith: he calls the law, xv. 10, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; he declares that Jews as well as Gentiles can only be saved through the grace of Christ, and that...

...is frequently represented in the New Testament as a state of bondage and restraint. It is called " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ;" a schoolmaster, which kept men under a severe awe and discipline. It is represented as a prison,...

...subscription in framimg their Statutes. Certainly the Associate Founders were not the men to impose on others a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. The requirement by them of a literal and rigid and minute subscription would have been an inconsistency...

...indeed. He seems to disparage circumcision now as a Jewish institution. He speaks of it as imposing a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. What can he mean ? Has the recent experience of Barnabas and Saul overturned all his previous belief...

...implied in strictly keeping the Law, "bound heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, on men's shoulders ; " " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." 4 Hence, even in towns there were such large numbers who had never been able to carry out 1 Mark xii....

...redemption, it would well deserve from Israelites the description given of it by St. Peter (Acts xv, 10) as "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." (3.) The penaltiti and rrtrards by which the law is enforced are such as depend on the direct theocracy....

...transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made." Gal. iii, 19.) And that it was a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and that Christ came to fulfill the law and introduce the Gospel which was greater—a higher law and...

...from the ministry that Moses received and instituted as the way of drawing near to God. That was " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." They saw that the New Covenant required them to " believe that they should be saved through the grace...

...the need of it (Gal. iii. 21). The people could not endure that which was enjoined. Peter calls it a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear (Acts xv. 10). It was given to convince man of his weakness and incapacity, and to compel him to confess it. Instead...