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Example sentences for "his flock"

  • Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat of it.

  • When they have drawn near to the place of water each shepherd gives a sign to his flock, and obedient to his voice, the respective flocks lie down and patiently wait their turn to drink.

  • Guiding, saving words of a Shepherd to his flock, they engendered safety, comfort, peace.

  • Nevertheless, even while Master Burnbridge was preaching to his flock, the road was being filled with the household treasures of the man who had been minister of the parish for ten years.

  • My name, young master, is John Day, who for ten years ministered to his flock in the parish church at St. Martin's.

  • He was led to look more carefully into this trying dispensation, and began to anticipate blessed results from it to his flock.

  • Though engaged night and day with his flock in St. Peter's, Mr. M'Cheyne ever cherished a missionary spirit.

  • The days when a holy pastor, who knows the blood-sprinkled way to the Father, is laid aside, are probably as much a proof of the kindness of God to his flock as days of health and activity.

  • On the Sabbath following he was introduced to his flock by Mr. John Bonar of Larbert, with whom he had labored as a son in the gospel.

  • He did not, however, neglect the interests of his flock.

  • George took no pains to conceal the fact that he held his bishopric by the favour of the emperor and the power of the army against the wishes of his flock.

  • After two years Paul was displaced either by the emperor or by his flock; and Zoilus was then seated on the episcopal throne by the help of the imperial forces.

  • He excused himself from attending the court, knowing of what importance the presence of a bishop is to his flock, for which he is to give a severe account to God.

  • He found means, however, to write a letter to his flock, which St. Gregory of Tours has preserved.

  • Such a man generally thrives in the thriving of his flock, and does not harry them.

  • The flower of his flock, and of all the flocks of the world of the universe to his mind, was his darling daughter Mary: the strength of his love was upon her, and he liked to eat any thing of her cooking.

  • The rector showed deep knowledge of his flock, which looked upon Jews as the goats of the Kingdom; for any Jew must die for a world of generations ere ever a Christian thinks much of him.

  • It was all the saddest earnest to the young pastor, who found so little encouragement or support even in the enthusiasm of his flock.

  • When a minister lodges with one of his flock, he must think of appearances--and if it were only for my dear child's sake, Arthur!

  • He went up to Back Grove Street, not without a vague expectation in his mind, wondering if that singular stranger would look as unlike the rest of his flock to-day as she had done on the former occasion.

  • He sums up the principal qualities necessary for a bishop, and gives him particular advice touching his own conduct to his flock, exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity.

  • Martial, one of his flock, desired him to speak some words of comfort to his desolate church.

  • Nicholas à Lyra and Ribera cannot be persuaded that St. Timothy ever deserved such a censure, unless we understand it only of his flock.

  • His dying words to his clergy, and through them to his flock, were as follows: “Tell my people that I love them; tell them how much I regret that circumstances have kept us at a distance from each other.

  • He no longer spoke cheerfully to his flock, nor ran with alacrity to the shrine of Hastur.

  • From thence he wrote several letters to his flock in different places where they were resident.

  • Not satisfied with performing the duties of the pastoral office to his flock at Rowell, he added the character of an itinerant too, and extended his journeys 80 miles in every direction around the place of his abode.

  • This endeared him very much to his flock, and did not a little contribute to the success of his labours among them.

  • His labours at Rowell, though short, were attended with the most important and permanent result, the benefits of which were experienced by the descendants of his flock.

  • When you are tempted to think meanly of the kingdom of Christ, as if his flock were so small, and poor, and sinful as to be inconsiderable, look up to the world of blessed souls which dwell above.

  • He generally is but little respected by his flock, and certainly does nothing to attach them to Spain; for he hates and envies his Spanish brethren, who leave him only the very worst appointments, and treat him with contempt.

  • Notwithstanding the great respect in which he was held by his flock, he had to exert all his powers of persuasion to induce the boldest of them to engage in so daring an enterprise.


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