 | Missions - 1801 - 530 pages
...feast in honor of the calf which they had made. " And they made a calf in Horcb in those days, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." But what a sad sort of Christianity is this ! I am no enemy to mirth of a proper kind, and at proper... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them : as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neitker let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...his Sacraments: as ye may perceive by the effects; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. X. 1 The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. The people did feast in their sacrifices, to the honour of their idol; and, in celebration of their... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...Oh this people have sinned a great sin, 1 Cor. x. 1. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Acts vii. 41. They made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol. 2dly. Micah and... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters., as were some of them: as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one clay three and twenty... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...him playing with Isaac : IIO\T what is intended by the word plaung? It is written in Exodus 31. that the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play,— ludere, id est, says, St. Jerome, ' idolo/ahrtre.' Nicholas de Lyra commenting upon this passage, ex... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 774 pages
...take the most favourable \ir\v possible of this sort of worship, and had induced him to " think people injudicious who talk against the Roman Catholics for...worshipping saints, and honouring the Virgin, and Images, &c.," which things " may perhaps be idolatrous "—he could not " make up his mind about it"—yet... | |
 | James Wilson - Calvinism - 1814 - 342 pages
...not lust after evil things, as they also " lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of " them ; as it is written, the people sat down to eat " and drink, and rose up to play." " Neither let us " commit fornication, as some of them committed." " Neither murmur ye, as some of... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell m one day three and twenty thousand.... | |
 | Peter GANDOLPHY - 1815 - 552 pages
...Brethren: Let us not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them: as it is written: " The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day... | |
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• I think people are injudicious, who talk against the Roman Catholics, for worshipping saints, and honouring the Virgin and images. These things may perhaps be idolatrous : I cannot make up my mind about it. But, to my mind, it is the carnival, which... 
