Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and... A view of the evidences of Christianity - Page 239by William Paley - 1811Full view - About this book
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 536 pages
...find Justin Martyr giving the emperor an account of the Christian worship, in which it is written, " The memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the...exhorting to the imitation of so excellent things."* The custom here mentioned is evidently spoken of as notorious and universal. This was about the year... | |
| William Palmer - Liturgies, Early Christian - 1832 - 408 pages
...which is called Sunday," says Justin, " all who live in the city or the country meet together, and the memoirs of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets, are read as long as circumstances permit a. " The author of the Apostolical Constitutions, who is admitted by... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...find Justin Martyn giving the emperor an account of the Christian worship, in which it is written, " The memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the...exhorting to the imitation of so excellent things. "f The custom here mentioned is evidently spoken of as notorious and universal. This was about the... | |
| John Henry Hopkins - Apologetics - 1833 - 194 pages
...in the assemblies of the Christians, by a person appointed for that purpose. His words are these, ' The memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the...exhorting to the imitation of So excellent things.' The allusions and quotations in the writings of Justin, in which the New Testament is cited or recognized,... | |
| Temple Chevallier - Church history - 1833 - 620 pages
...called Sunday, there is an assembly in one place of all who dwell either in towns or in the country; and the Memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as the time permits. Then, when the reader hath ceased, the President delivers a discourse,... | |
| William Rollinson Whittingham - Apostolic Fathers - 1834 - 280 pages
...Sunday, there is an assembly in one place of all who dwell either in towns or in the country ; and the Memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as the time permits. Then, when the reader hath ceased, the President delivers a discourse,... | |
| 1834 - 592 pages
...Sunday, there is an assembly in one place of all who dwell either in towns or in the country ; and the Memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the Prophets are read, as long as the time permits. Then, when the reader hath ceased, the head of the congregation delivers... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Theology - 1838 - 740 pages
...worship to the emperor, in the first Apology, he says : ' Thef memoirs of the apostles, or the writing of the prophets, are read according as the time allows;...exhorting to the imitation of so excellent things.' 16. Trypho the Jew, in the Dialogue, says к to Justin : ' 1 am sensible that the precepts in your... | |
| George Ingram - 1838 - 192 pages
...says, " On the day which is called Sunday, all who live in the city or the country meet together, and the memoirs of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets, are read as long as circumstances permit."27 As early, however, as the fourth century some of the eastern Churches... | |
| 1838 - 606 pages
...Sunday, there is an assembly in one place of all who dwell either in towns or in the country ; and the memoirs of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as the time permits. Then, when the reader hath ceased, the president delivers a discourse,... | |
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