You are doing your best to counterwork the very main purpose of the Gospel upon yourselves, when in silence you possess, or fancy that you possess, the gift of His love.
What a solemn glimpse into man's power to counterwork God's purpose!
Counterwork your rivals, with diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them; and be firm without heat.
Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother, this desolating rage!
He has set himself to counterwork the machinations of this man, who had menaced destruction to all that is dear to me, and whose cunning had surmounted every human impediment.
Our security had never been molested by either, and I made use of no means to prevent or counterwork their machinations.
How shall I counterwork his plots, or detect his coadjutor?
Man seeks to know the worst only in order that he may avoid or counterwork it in the furtherance of his interests.
If men are to work together for their common welfare they must be truly in touch with one another; otherwise there is a spy at their councils, an incalculable force that may counterwork their plans.
Take measures, therefore, with your council, that the subject may be brought under their consideration effectually and in earnest, and with as much brevity as possible, so that these furious men may not be able to counterwork you.
You are well aware how necessary it is to reconnoitre an enemy to know by what method to counterwork his stratagems.
How shall I counterwork his plots or detect his coadjutor?
Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother this desolating rage!
By this time the Syracusan counterwork had almost passed the end of the Athenian wall, and if it were carried a few yards further, the siege of Syracuse would be brought to a standstill.
When it was completed, this counterwork consisted of a solid stone wall, crowned with wooden towers, and defended in front by a palisade.
But then the text suggests to us the large Christian possessions and hope which counterwork this reluctance, in the measure in which we live lives of faith.
That gift makes anything believable, reasonable, possible, rather than that He should spare not His own Son, and then should counterwork His own act by sending the world anything but good.
Thessaly, to protect Larissa against Alexander of Pheræ, and to counterwork the projects of that despot, who was in league with Athens.
Plato tried to counterwork this mischief, but in vain.
Sloth and superstition equallycounterwork providence, and render the bounty of heaven of no effect.
