Grace resides instrumentally in the sacraments of the New Law, as the form of a thing designed resides in the instruments of the art designing, according to a process flowing from the agent to the passive object.
Hence nothing else can act dispositively and instrumentally to this effect, since creation is not from anything presupposed, which can be disposed by the action of the instrumental agent.
But all accidental forms actinstrumentally in virtue of the substantial form as the principal agent.
Consequently, Christ's Resurrection has instrumentally an effective power not only with regard to the resurrection of bodies, but also with respect to the resurrection of souls.
But in spiritual generation they do not act, either of them, by their proper power, but only instrumentally by the power of Christ.
To give grace or the Holy Ghost belongs to Christ as He is God, authoritatively; butinstrumentally it belongs also to Him as man, inasmuch as His manhood is the instrument of His Godhead.
Christ's actions and sufferings operate instrumentally in virtue of His Godhead for the salvation of men.
Church work instrumentally in the sacraments, because, in a way, a minister is of the nature of an instrument.
Since, however, external goods serve instrumentally for certain acts of virtue, the consequence is that a certain honor is given to their excellence especially by the common people who acknowledge none but outward excellence.
Thirdly, a thing belongs to perfectioninstrumentally and dispositively, as poverty, continence, abstinence, and the like.
But temporal goods are not to be despised, in so far as they are helping us instrumentally to attain those things that pertain to Divine fear and love.
Christian life does not essentially consist in voluntary poverty, but voluntary poverty conduces instrumentally to the perfection of life.
Now wealth conduces instrumentally to the happiness of the active life which consists in external actions, because as the Philosopher says (Ethic.
It is thus that God works while employing instrumentally the faith of a sinner.
With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied.
The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves.
They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so.
The property, and money, and occupations of time may instrumentally affect for good or evil our efforts to lay up the true riches.
We are justified efficiently by the grace of God, meritoriously by Christ, instrumentally by faith, evidentially by works.
Look now at the life of an animal, with senses often more instrumentally accurate than ours.
It was made up, you saw, of three factors, a physical antecedent, a condition of the sensitive apparatus, and a mind which received into its consciousness the impression instrumentally conveyed to it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instrumentally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
