I refuse not to The punished; I deserve the inflictions of Thy justice; only forgive, and Thou mayest do what Thou wilt unto me.
It is placed on the ground, that the sins of the world, or of those for whom Christ died, have been imputed to him; and hence he really suffers the inflictions of the retributive justice of God.
In truth and in deed, the sinner is just as guilty after the atonement as he was before; and he is just as obnoxious to the inflictions of the retributive justice of God.
This being ineffectual, the grounds of the controversy were again particularized, and more terribleinflictions threatened.
In the inflictions which followed, each was more appalling and terrific than those which preceded.
War has slain its thousands, but alcohol its tens of thousands; and the fortitude which could bear without shrinking the most cruel inflictions of torture, has proved powerless to resist the seductions of strong drink.
All their prayers, sacrifices, feasts and personal inflictions tend only to advance their temporal welfare and interest.
Indian priests, doctors, or conjurors are not more venerated on account of their supposed supernatural powers, but are somewhat feared, and sometimes persecuted or killed for supposed inflictions of diseases by sorcery.
The phrase, "thou shall not RULE over him with rigor," does not prohibit unreasonable exactions of labor, nor inflictions of cruelty.
The phrase, "thou shalt not RULE over him with rigor," does not prohibit unreasonable exactions of labor, nor inflictions of cruelty.
Were it necessary to add any thing more to show that divine justice is not inconsistent with the attribute of goodness, but a part of it, the consideration of the design of its inflictions would afford further evidence of this truth.
There is another inducement to cruel inflictions upon the slave, and a necessity for it, which does not exist in the case of brutes.
I will state to you a few cases of the abuse of the slaves, but time would fail, if I had language to tell how many and great are the inflictions of slavery, even in its mildest form.
True, privations and inflictions may be carried to such an extent as to occasion a fearful diminishment of population.
Privations and inflictions must be its natural, habitual products, with ever and anon, terror, torture, and despair let loose to do their worst upon the helpless victims.
We will now present the testimony of a large number of individuals, with their names and residences,--persons who witnessed the inflictions to which they testify.
At one time, they must regard the race as given up to hopeless rebellion, and the inflictions of vindictive justice.
For those aggravations seem superadded, in the case of men, as penal inflictions for their sins; and we ought to leave them out of the account, when we are considering death as a benevolent provision.
But now they see that they were only the necessary inflictions of infinite love.
My age sets me beyond your cruelty: if you think otherwise, call your agents, and commence your operations; neither threats nor inflictions will enable you to extort from me any thing that I am not ready to tell you of my own accord.
Doubtless through these inflictions the culprits escaped corporal punishments much less endurable, and they serve to explain the persistent multiplication of familiars, coupled with disregard of the character of the appointees.
May Heaven for many a year preserve him, the uncompromising foe of Nukuheva and the French, if a hostile attitude will secure his lovely domain from the remorseless inflictions of South Sea civilization.
The disease was met there, and its inflictions sustained in the noblest spirit of charity, courage, and wisdom.
It is much the same with men's mutual inflictions in life.
The people who are naturally well mannered are like the people who sing by ear; and I need not say what inflictions are both.
Unfeeling and despotic inflictions will make the sufferer an enemy to his race, and in some instances, awe his sinful propensities into inaction, but these things will not--cannot make him love either his God or his fellow beings.
I alone am to blame, and if I could suffer alone, I would patiently endure the terrible inflictions of justice I have merited.
Then my present restlessness and disquietude of soul are the lighter inflictions of this tremendous penalty--the premonitions of the coming storm of God's righteous displeasure.
Their object in these inflictions was not security but torture; and all mitigation was refused.
We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him!
Let not the pious reader suppose that by these penal inflictions on churches, the church of Christ is to perish.
All history, so far as authentic, teaches that the civil powers throughout Christendom, attempt to coerce by penal inflictions the consciences of all who refuse obedience to their commands, no less than the church of Rome.
Such inflictions make a boy reckless, or obstinate, or deceitful.
Nor did the fearful enumeration of judicial inflictions stop there; they were forewarned of lengthened sieges, of the most frightful extremity of famine, of long and weary captivity in distant lands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
