How is it that such an instance as the present does not open the eyes of Prejudice itself to the danger of pinning its faith to the consentient testimony even of Origen, of Eusebius, and of Cod.
If we find it invariably consentient and invariably truthful, then of course a mighty presumption will have been established, the very strongest possible, that their adverse testimony in respect of the conclusion of S.
Does he quote so much as a Canon of the Church, or a Vote in Convocation, or an Act of Parliament, or the consentient Opinion of all Protestant Writers (which are the extrascriptural Standards of modern Orthodoxy) for his Opinion?
Thy brethren have not sinned: They fled, consentient with the Will Supreme: Their names are written in the Book of Life: Enough that He Who gives to each his part Hath sealed thy sons and thee to loftier fates; Therefore more sternly tries.
He will worship still at the same altar, and sing his hymn to the same strain; only with a richer chorus of consentient voices, and in a wider communion of faithful souls.
This principle is often illustrated in the independent yet consentient testimony of the whole body of the Cursives and later Uncials(61).
They implied a consentientrecord from the first, except where ignorance, or inaccuracy, or carelessness, or heresy, prevailed.
Not that even these seven so-called consentient witnesses are in complete accord among themselves.
Clever as the Swampington people and the Kemberling people might be in finding out the business of their neighbours, they never knew that Olivia Marchmont had been consentient to the hiding-away of her stepdaughter.
On the other hand, the facts of rappings, ghosts, clairvoyance, in spite of the universally consentient evidence, are very doubtful facts after all.
No such evidence exists for the lions; for the phenomena of so-called spiritualism, we have consentient testimony in every land, period and stage of culture.
Even the generally consentient voice of Doctors and Fathers, as far as it could be ascertained, was held to be of the same authoritative kind.
The business of Textual Criticism (as you state at page 28 of your pamphlet) is nothing else but to ascertain "the consentient testimony of the most ancient Authorities.
But the most striking evidence is the consentient testimony of the manuscripts, viz.
Now, my method on the contrary is to refer all such questions to "the consentient testimony of the most ancient authorities.
I appeal to the consentient testimony of Catholic antiquity.
Do I not invariably make the consentient voice of Antiquity my standard?
It is condemned by the consentient voice of Antiquity.
And now, which of us two is found to have made the fairer and the fuller appeal to "the consentienttestimony of the most ancient authorities:" you or I?
But it is not only because of that consentient chorus of many voices--the testimony of which wise men will not reject--that the word is 'a faithful saying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consentient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
