...d»yj and ting an hymn to Christ as to their God. His own words are(" Affirmabant, hanc " fuisse sumam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato "die ante lucem convenire, carraenque Christo quasi Deo dicere." ' t Some remarkable instances of this we have in the sacred'...

...; intimating, it should seem, that they themselves had been taxed with the same: Sesacramentonon ad scelus aliquod obstringere ,• sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, &c. which runs exactly parallel with the accusation against the Bacchanalians, as it stands in Livy...

...of a heathen writer, that testimony is offered, with sufficient plainness, by Plmy. ' Afiirinabant autem, hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae, vel erroris,...ante lucem convenire, carmenque Christo, quasi Deo, diccre secum invicem.' Lib. 10. Ep. 87- This evidence of the Christian Fathers, which Mr. le Courayer...

...convening carmenque Cbristo quasi Deo dicere sccum iovicem : seque sacramento non in scelus aliqnod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositunt appellati abnegarent. Pinrius TRAJAKO. They affirmed that they met on a certain stated day...

...order, against the holding of any assemblies whatever. Affirmabant hone fuitse summam vel culfia sua, vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato. die ante lucem...sacramento non in scelus aliquod, obstringere, sed nefurta, ne latroFIFTEENTH BOOK OF THE ANNALS. 435 inm, ne adult cria committerenl; ne fidem fallerent,...

...sold. We see by this what multitudes may "be * Affirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpx SUEE vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem...fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent ; quibus peractis, morem sibi discedendi fuisse, rursusquc cocundi ad capicuJiim cibura, promiscuum...

...reckoned among the factions of the people, was that which they gave to Pliny, that all their fault was, Quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire,...ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fatter ent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent. That they were wont upon their solemn days to meet together...

...fuit summa, tief culpae, vel erroris, quod Christian! essent solili statu die ante lucem mnvenire, carmenque Christo, quasi Deo, dicere secum invicem : seque sacramento non in scelus atiquod obstringere. sed nefurta, ne latrocinia, ne adulterio commutèrent, neJidvmfaUerent, ne deposilum...

...walk in God's law, Sfc. So Pliny, in his 97th Epistle to Trajan, respecting the early Christians. " Seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere,...committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegaren!." Job, xxxi. 27. My heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand....

...day. We are confirmed in this by the well-known passage in one of Pliny's Epistles to Trajan : — ' Soliti stato die ante lucem convenire; carmenque Christo,...adulteria committerent; ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum adpellati abnegarent. Quibus peractis, morem sibi discedendi fuisse, rursusque coeundi ad capiendum...