How wonderfully does God thus overrule His darkest dispensations for the exercise and discipline of His people's spiritual graces!
He would lead them to discover in His providential dispensations what is inconsistent with His revealed character and will.
In this most mighty Revelation,” He unequivocally announces, “all the Dispensations of the past have attained their highest, their final consummation.
The Scriptures of past Dispensations celebrate the great jubilee that must needs greet this most great Day of God.
This generation stands too close to so colossal a Revelation to appreciate, in their full measure, the infinite possibilities of His Faith, the unprecedented character of His Cause, and the mysterious dispensations of His Providence.
Charles's own Empress was the child of the second of these marriages, and they had all been contracted under dispensations from Rome.
Peers and Commons might be brought to agree that Popes could grant no dispensations in marriages or anything else, and so save their money.
Popes no longer pretend a power of deposing princes, absolving subjects from their allegiance, or selling dispensations for offences against the law of the land.
The Church, by its habits of granting dispensations for irregular marriages or of dissolving them on pleas of affinity or consanguinity or other pretext, had confused the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate.
To this the king promised to apply for such briefs and meanwhile the bishops should refuse to install persons bearing dispensations and report to him, and also represent to the pope the evils attendant on such preferment.
We have already seen to what profitable account the Inquisition turned the power which it had assumed to grant dispensations from this abhorrent servitude, and a case in 1558 indicates how it guarded against any invasion of its prerogative.
Dispensations were to be granted by the legate or the pope for all existing marriages and betrothals within the prohibited degrees, but future ones must conform to the canons.
In some, the constitutional evil may perhaps not be removed, until the constitution itself be broken; which may in some measure account for the difference of the dispensations that good men pass through in this world.
It is to exhibit this relation of dispensations that the Introduction is written, and the importance of the subject must be the apology for its length.
That dispensation, of which this history is but the chronicle, bears an important relation to all former dispensations since {VIII} the world began.
Yet God left not Himself without witnesses in the earth; for there were a few in all dispensations that honored Him and His righteous laws.
That there have been many dispensationsof the Gospel, many times that divine authority has been conferred upon men, is apparent from the Scripture narrative of such events.
The Church forbade the eating of meat on fast days, but the Church was ready with dispensationsfor those who could afford to pay for them.
Whatever their number, or the names by which they may be properly known, it is certain that the gospeldispensations are inter-related.
Christ, and from Christ to the end of all the dispensations that are to be revealed.
It is a tragic matter when law, especially if it is the Indian Penal Code, defeats the natural dispensations of justice.
On service, of course, as on pilgrimages under hard climatic conditions, there are dispensations in the ceremonial, though not in the essentials, of caste.
You can trace through all dispensations the essential unity of revealed religion.
It followed, further, that the Pope claimed also the power of granting dispensations from existing laws and absolution for their infringement.
The master of the faculties regulates the appointment of notaries public, and all dispensations which fall under 25 Hen.
They heard appeals from all tribunals and could give dispensations from existing church laws.
He also showed brave resistance when papal dispensations infringed his ordinances founded upon the canon law, and protested vigorously, when Stephen II.
Papal and episcopaldispensations from fasting were also freely given.
The law allows certain dispensations from some of these requirements (Canons 974 sqq.
Examples are the grant to the unworthy of the power of Orders or of jurisdiction, the concession of permissions anddispensations to one's friends that are denied to others.
The manner of seeking dispensations is as follows: (a) for the usual dispensations (e.
Dispensations may be given under certain conditions by local Ordinaries, by parish-priests, and by superiors of exempt clerical institutes (Canon 1245).
There are no known examples of public dispensation of priestly celibacy for the sake of contracting marriage, but dispensations are granted from the religious vow of chastity.
Confessors who have not the faculties must have recourse to authority for dispensations and dispensative commutations, and the same course is advised for some difficult cases of annulment (e.
The limitations ondispensations by reason of the rights of third parties (see above 2236) apply also to commutations.
God was first creating within by his word a spiritual church, before he broke without by his dispensations the bonds which had so long fastened England to the power of Rome.
Well then," he said to Knight and Da Casale, "I will do what you ask; but I am not familiar with the forms these dispensations require.
When a great revolution is to be effected in the bosom of a people (we have the Reformation particularly in view), God instructs the minority by the Holy Scriptures, and the majority by the dispensations of the divine government.
They said that "the papal dispensations had no force when in opposition to the law of God.
They soften Insolence, sooth Affliction, and subdue the Mind to the Dispensations of Providence.
The Resolution of dying to end our Miseries, does not shew such a degree of Magnanimity as a Resolution to bear them, and submit to the Dispensations of Providence.
If we would see him in all the Wonders of his Mercy we must have recourse to Revelation, which represents him to us, not only as infinitely Great and Glorious, but as infinitely Good and Just in his Dispensations towards Man.
His past dispensations and dealings with me leave not the least suspicion of his inviolable veracity, and his efficacious promises cheer the sadness, calm the fears of every soul that practically reposes in and seeks after him.
Much refreshed with meeting them in Class, and particularly in private conversation with Peter Jones, about the dispensations of God towards us in the increase of our graces and gifts.
In 1552 it was helped on again by Lenten offerings, in return for dispensations to consume butter and milk.
How much these dispensations produced, and how long the funds lasted, we are not informed; but civil war and religious troubles stopped the works again, and it was not until 1624 that they were resumed.
Successive dispensations of a loving and purposeful Creator have brought the earth’s inhabitants to the threshold of their collective coming-of-age as a single people.
To condemn religion because any one of its successive dispensations failed to address the whole range of social wrongs would be to ignore everything that has been learned about the nature of human development.
So it has been throughout all of the religious dispensations whose origins have survived in written records.
And again, if God thus employs the creature as an instrument to accomplish his wise and holy purposes, why should he pour out the vials of his wrath upon him for having yielded to the dispensations of his almighty power?
This was not only to reply against God’s word, but also against the manifest arrangements and dispensationsof his providence.
And the folly of them is yet greater, when they are urged, as usually they are, against things in Christianity analogous, or like to those natural dispensations of Providence which are matters of experience.
Still the objection against his goodness, in regard to the dispensation of light, would be no greater than in relation to all the dispensations of his favour.
In this respect, all the dispensations of divine providence are clearly and broadly distinguished from the Calvinistic scheme of election and reprobation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispensations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
