Footnote 19: After all supplications, remonstrances protestations and sufferings of our fathers, and our own grievous sufferings and contendings both before and since the late Revolution.
If so then the wholecontendings of Reformers and Covenanters and Martyrs sink into insignificance indeed; they have been assigned a magnitude far beyond their desert.
And wherever the faithful contendings of the once famous covenanted church of Scotland are honourably made mention of, this, to his honour, shall be recorded of him.
Faithful Contendings Displayed; Minute of the Scotch Privy Council of Aug.
Footnote 268: The form of notice will be found in the book entitled Faithful Contendings Displayed.
John Binning taught a school for some time (Faithful Contendings p.
The series of doctrinal contendings opened with the Trinitarian or Arian controversy.
A brief rehearsal of their contendingswill clear the case.
It is known how pertinacious the most faithful in those days were, in their contendings against associations, in any undertaking for the cause, with persons disaffected to the true state thereof.
He that causeth differences of judgment and practice, and contendings in the church, doth cause divisions, though none separate from the church.
And when you see the hot contendingsof each party, about their pretended orthodoxness or wisdom, (which James iii.
God does not will that His message should be injured by any prejudice against the bearer of it; and that His will in this matter might be adequately carried out, was one of the grand objects of our contendings in the Church controversy.
But the objection taken by anticipation to popular heats and contendings in such cases is as old as the first stirrings of a free spirit among the people, and the first struggles of despotism to bind them down.
Their contendings issued in breach of organic fellowship in 1840.
His faithful contendings and arduous labours contributed not a little to subvert the throne of a bigot and tyrant, and to achieve the nation's liberties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contendings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
