 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 602 pages
...been often charged) " but not " to be guilty of theft, or robbery, Of <* adultery, never to falfify their word, nor to " deny a pledge committed to them, when " called upon to return it. When thefe * iLardnetVTeflimonies, vol. 2. p. 355». ** things *r things were performed, it was their cuf"... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1799 - 606 pages
...guilty of theft, nor " of robbery, nor of adultery ; that " they would never falfify their word; " nor deny a pledge committed to them, " when called upon to return it." Lucian (m] fays of the Chriftians, againft whom he direded the utmoft poignancy of his wit, " that... | |
 | William Paley - 1800 - 446 pages
...corrunhTion of any wickednefs, but not to be guilty of theft, robbery, or adultery ; never to falfify their word, nor to deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to return it. Upon the words of Tacitus we may build the following obfervations : . Fir ft, That we are well warranted... | |
 | William Paley - 1800 - 418 pages
...would not be guilty of theft or robbery, or adultery ; that they would never falfify their word, or deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to return it." This proves that a morality, more pure and ftrid than was ordinary, prevailed at that time in Chriftian... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 436 pages
...not to the commission of any wickedness, * Rom. xii. 9. — xiii. 13. but not to be guilty of theft, robbery, or adultery ; never to falsify their word,...committed to them, when called upon to return it. Upon the words of Tacitus we may build the following observations : First ; That we are well warranted... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...light, and bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery : never to falsify...deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon them, to return it*." Here it is of importance to observe, that this testimony of Pliny not only asserts... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 714 pages
...wickedness, but not to be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery, never to falsify their word, « not to deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon...to separate, and then to come together again to a meaJ, ' which they ate in common, without any disorder. But this they had forborn, since the publi'... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 396 pages
...bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but, not to be guilty of theft, robbery, or adultery ; never to falsify their word,...deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to retarn it. Upon the words of Tacitus we may build the following observations : — First; That we are... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...would not be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery ; that they would never falsify their word, or deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to return it." This proves that a morality, more pure and strict than was ordinary, prevailed at that time in Christian... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 426 pages
...would not be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery ; that they would never falsify their word, or deny a pledge committed to them, when called upon to return it." This proves that a morality, more pure and strict than was ordinary, prevailed at that time in Christian... | |
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God, and bind themselves by an oath, not to the commission of any wickedness, but not to be guilty of theft, or robbery, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor to deny a pledge committed to them when called upon to return it. 
