 | Christian life - 1831 - 412 pages
...and an affection as lively and ardent, as they exemplified, when " they were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods,...and parted them to all men as every man had need." If their conduct cannot be imitated, yet the same grace may animate the heart. If the fact was not... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...reminded of that noble example of liberality, when " all that believed were, together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods,...and parted them to all men as every man had need." Nor need I enlarge on that benevolence of the churches of Macedonia, to which reference has been already... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...secular industry. Of the first Christians we read, "that all that be- i lieved were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man liad need ; and, continuing diily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1832 - 556 pages
...God. A HERE was a time in the Christian church when " all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods,...parted them to all men, as every man had need." (Acts 2. 44, 45.) This state of things lasted only for a short season. The Christian community, as it increased... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...receive you into everlasting habitations. La. xvi. 9. All that believed were together, and had all Ac. \\. 44, 45. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul, neither... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...baptized disciples. So changed were they in every worldly disposition, that they " sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men as every man had need;" and all this under no human influence but that of the preaching of men whom they began to hear with... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 536 pages
...baptized disciples. So changed were they in every worldly disposition, that they " sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men as every man had need ;" and all this under no human influence but that of the preaching of men whom they began to hear with... | |
 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1832 - 652 pages
...all together, and had all things common ;" how " they sold their possessions and goods, and'parted them to all • men as every man had need ;" (Acts ii. 44, 45.) how St. Paul urged "an equality, that the abundance of some might supply the want of others, as it... | |
 | Richard Formby - 1833 - 388 pages
...ESTABLISHED IN FORMBY. ACTS, chap. ii. verses 44, 45. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods,...and parted them to all men, as every man had need. WHAT a delightful picture have we here of the lives and manners of the first professors of christianity!... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 624 pages
...STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS. Acts ii. 44 — 47. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods,...and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did... | |
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And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. 
