It is in this way that through many generations andcorruptions we arrive at the ultimate substantial form, both in man and other animals.
Ferdinand appears to have been a sincere Catholic, though he saw the great corruptions of the Church and earnestly desired reform.
The more senseless and abominable any of its corruptions were, the more tenaciously did pope and cardinals cling to them.
These corruptions were so palpable that they could not bear the light.
Though nominally religious parties, they were political as well as religious, and subject to all the fluctuations and corruptions attending such combinations.
Luther had torn the vail from the corruptions of papacy, and was exhibiting to astonished Europe the enormous aggression and the unbridled licentiousness of pontifical power.
Eloquent preachers, able writers, had everywhere proclaimed the corruptions of the papacy and urged a pure gospel.
This was one year after Luther had nailed upon the church door in Wittemberg, his ninety-five propositions, which had roused all Germany to scrutinize the abominablecorruptions of the papal church.
He saw the deepcorruptions of the Church, confessed them openly, mourned over them and declared that the Church needed a thorough reformation.
Sidenote: Baptismal regeneration] One of the earliest corruptions of apostolic truth concerned the design and purpose of baptism.
And from this he went on to attack the corruptions of the Church in general.
During the fourth century there was a growth of superstitions and corruptions in the Church.
Among other such corruptionswere the reverence for the relics of saints (that is, for parts of their bodies, or for things which had belonged to them), and the religious honour paid to images and pictures.
The very corruptions into which we have fallen are signs of a subtle life, higher than theirs was, and therefore more fearful in its faults and death.
The neglect of the Holy Scriptures was the fruitful source of all those errors and corruptions which blot the page of Israel's history, and which brought down upon them many heavy strokes of Jehovah's governmental rod.
He knew and he would not hide the corruptionsof the Church, and he was not the man to spare the vices which were sapping the foundations not so much of the Church as of religion itself.
We might fill page after page with examples such as these of the distortions and corruptions of Benvenuto's meaning which we have noted on the margin of this so-called translation.
How prolific was the invention of the falsehoods and absurdities of notion, and of the vanities and corruptions of practice, which it was devised to make the terms and names of religion designate and sanction!
Shisha and Shavsha are perhaps corruptions of Seraiah (2 Sam.
And, doubtless, the abigails partook of the vices and corruptions incidental to both these phases of social life.
He had brought with him a whole budget of stories of the scandalous corruptions and wickedness he had witnessed in the metropolis of Christendom.
There, issuing from the pure ether of its heavenly nature, flows the source of all beauty, which was never tainted by the corruptions of generations or of ages, which roll along far beneath it in dark eddies.
By heaven, Sacco, I admire the wise design of Providence, that in us would heal the corruptions in the heart of the state by the vile ulcers on its limbs.
The labors of the synod instead of purifying the Romish Church from its corruptions had only reduced the latter to greater definiteness and precision, and invested them with the sanction of authority.
He believed Pietism the only means of uprooting the long-existing corruptions of education, society, and religion.
He blasphemed to his auditors by day, while at night he surrendered himself to the corruptions of the gambling-room, the beer-cellar and the house of prostitution.
But the church has proved herself able to depose many corruptions of her faith; yet this attack upon her faith she has still to vanquish thoroughly.
Your quarrel lies in this case, not with religion itself, but with the corruptions of it.
The fundamental error was, that she had no distinct view of the corruptions of human nature.
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
The power of Poland, already weakened by the corruptions and dissensions of her nobles, began steadily to decline after this long and exhausting war.
His success was so marked that in 1510 he was sent by the Order on a special mission to Rome, where the corruptionsof the Church and the immorality of the Pope and Cardinals made a profound and lasting impression upon his mind.
He admitted many of the corruptions of the Roman Church, and seemed inclined to reform them; but he only lived two years, and his successor was Clement VII.
We have arrived at length at the seventh and last test, which was laid down when we started, for distinguishing the true development of an idea from its corruptions and perversions: it is this.
On the other hand, real perversions and corruptions are often not so unlike externally to the doctrine from which they come, as are changes which are consistent with it and true developments.
The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones.
He denounced thecorruptions he had noted in the existing ordinances of the church with no uncertain note.
They exposed new and wholesale corruptions which prevailed in the papal court, and which roused the bitterest indignation amongst those who were banded together to uphold righteousness and purity.
The government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy; and the corruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical reform.
Christendom has found it as difficult to do without visible embodiments of authority, law, defence, and hence many evils and corruptions in the institutions and practices of organised Christianity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corruptions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
