Father confessors and chaplains were appointed for these duties.
Afterwards he attended the confessors in prison, stood by them at the tribunal, and gave them the kiss of peace when they were led out to suffer, and this, in spite of being several times apprehended and put upon the rack.
In fact the confessors strictly prohibited Greek and Hebrew books, "the sources of all heresies;" and Erasmus's Testament was particularly forbidden.
Clark and the other confessors of the name of Christ were still confined in their under-ground prison.
They almost magnified into Christian confessors the prelates who remonstrated against the indulgence, and actually plotted against the king for restoring them to liberty of person and conscience.
Thus a song of triumph was, on the part of the Confessors of Augsburg, the first movement that followed this courageous act, unique doubtless in the annals of the Church.
The evil of the Middle Ages was the having enslaved the State to the Church, and the confessors of Augsburg rose like one man to combat it.
With what wisdom, in particular, the confessors of Augsburg protest against that confusion of religion and politics which since the deplorable epoch of Constantine, had changed the kingdom of God into an earthly and carnal institution!
They expected to see criminals endeavouring to dissemble their faults, and they met with confessors of Christ with uplifted heads and words of power.
God revived the courage of the confessors in their weakened hearts.
If the Augsburg confessors were unwilling that things from above should monopolize those of the earth, they would have been still less willing for things of earth to oppress those from heaven.
Thus, at that time, a statesman stood in the foremost rank of the confessors of Jesus Christ.
Be assured and doubt not," wrote he to them, "that you are the confessors of Jesus Christ, and the ambassadors of the Great King.
I thrill with joy," wrote Luther, "that my life was cast in an epoch in which Christ is publicly exalted by such illustrious confessors and in so glorious an assembly.
Such was the arsenal in which the weapons were forged that the confessors of Christ wielded before the Diet of Augsburg.
If, from the ashes of the martyrs at Cappel, a voice could be heard, it would be these very words of the Bible that these noble confessors would address, after three centuries, to the Christians of our days.
The Holy Ghost, that bloweth where it listeth, had inspired them with the courage of the ancient confessors of the Church; and the God of Election was glorified in them.
Sudden death is the only thing to fear, therefore confessors live in the houses of the great.
But a few years after this Fathers La Chaise and Le Tellier, as Confessorsto the King, had this power in their hands.
The remaining solitaries were not dispersed, some of those who had gone returned, the confessors were not removed, the school was not closed, and Port Royal was respited.
He advised them to give their support to no man but a repealer, and very judiciously instructed his confessors in private, that it should be given only to those who were most favorable to your holiness' spouse, the infallible church.
Were it not for this, Popish priests and confessors would never be admitted into their houses, or occupy a seat at the table of any decent or virtuous family.
The cunning of Americans, their knowledge of human nature and of things in general, cannot be mentioned in the same category with the craft and knowledge of man which Jesuit priests and confessors possess.
Priests, nuns and confessors are the same now that they were then, all over the world.
And is not this demagogue Hughs at this very moment corresponding with the confessors of Daniel O'Connell, and the other leaders of repeal in Ireland?
It is well then perhaps, after all, that while such reptiles as Popish confessors are allowed a place in society, that the secrets of the confessional should be confined to themselves alone.
Sixty confessors were made prisoners by Humeric, the tyrant king of the African Vandals, in the 4th century.
Few of the confessors in this country, except the bishops, are entrusted with the plans of the Jesuits; perhaps not ten, except they are of the Jesuit order.
What Confessors were in old times, Quackenboss and his like are in our Protestant country.
Thereupon the Pope requires those eighty Bishops and Confessors who still survived, and whom he acknowledged to be not only blameless, but martyrs for the name of Christ, to resign into his hands their episcopal powers.
The nobles who acted as assessors had no sympathy with religious toleration, being themselves under the influence of confessors and directors.
In times of persecution confessors are the highest teachers, and the marks of the Lord Jesus borne in a man's body give more authority than diplomas and learning.
The Church owes much to the violence which has shut up confessors in dungeons.
Zeal carries men often too far afloat; and confessors in general wish to have the sole steerage of the conscience.
Confessors do occasionally take circuitous ways to arrive at the secrets of the human heart.
I thought the question an indiscreet one; but confessors vary in their advances to the seat of truth.
And although it was once arranged as well by us as by the confessors and the clergy of the city,(71) likewise by all the bishops located either in our province or beyond the sea [i.
In the latter point the activity of the confessors no longer plays any part, as the authority of the bishops in the various communities is now undisputed by rival.
The nearest equivalent in the ancient Church was the local and temporary African practice of restoring lapsed Christians to communion at the intercession of confessors and prospective martyrs in prison.
The most accepted modern theory is that it is merely a catchword surviving from a longer phrase which proclaimed how, during such Indulgences, ordinary confessors might absolve from sins usually "reserved" to the Bishop or the Pope.
These two confessors had each his church in the faubourg de Bourgogne, wherein their bodies were jealously guarded.
In those days the bones of martyrs and confessors were devoutly worshipped.
The confessors of [thorn]e English kings were almost invariably Dominicans.
The friars were accused of having made use of [thorn]eir position as confessors to stir up [thorn]e peasant revolt.
Ano[thorn]er handbook forconfessors is occasionally found bound up wi[thorn] works of John Wallensis.
No one will dispute the assertion that the father-confessors gather much experience in the exercise of their profession, and that most of them possess sufficient tact to avoid asking improper questions.
Thus they conclude, the Remains of the vilest part of Mankind are trump'd up in the Church for the Bodies of the most eminent Confessors and Martyrs.
Meanwhile, the resurrection of the names of the confessors and martyrs of a former age, is a sure indication of the resurrection of their principles too.
They fall naturally into the position of confessors to the community, for the community requires confessors of some sort.
Although the confessors of Christ undergo great suffering, they do so with joy and invincible constancy.
Many fled for this reason, leaving the most populous city in Japan almost depopulated, although it still contains confessors who ennoble it.
Accordingly, they became the habitual confessors of absolute monarchs, in Austria, and in France under the Bourbons, and were intimately associated with great conservative forces of society.
And when their polemics failed, they strove, as pamphleteers, and as the confessors of the great, to resist the Protestants with the arm of the flesh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confessors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
