Kohlhaas declared that Luther's intercession completely reassured him on that point, whereupon Luther bowed to him with a sweep of his hand.
I have seldom known a soldier who, at the intercession of his friends, and at their no small charge, had been redeemed from that discipline, that in a short time was not eager to return to it again.
They even knelt to beseech the intercession of Egmont, but Noircarmes remained deaf to all their entreaties, and the sight of the chains which he ordered to be brought out drove them reluctantly enough back to Valenciennes.
By the former course they would probably have delayed the final sentence, and in the time thus gained the powerful intercession of their friends might perhaps have not been ineffectual.
This sentence was, at the intercession of the Lorraine general, who had come to the frontiers to pay his respects to the duke, executed on only one of the three, upon whom the lot fell at the drum-head.
In spite of the intercession of the Imperial and Roman courts, he did not again obtain his freedom until security had been given to the people on all the disputed points.
Thus urged, I know To rate this intercession at its worth; France has discharged her duties as a friend, I will fulfil my own as England's queen.
Would write a letter for me, a few words Of kindly intercession to my father;-- They say your influence is great.
William aimed at the hand of her daughter, and he hoped to promote his suit by actively interposing his good offices for the mother; but he did not reflect that through this very intercession he ruined her cause.
All were anathematized who should either presume to doubt the miraculous power of relics, and refuse to honor the bones of martyrs, or should be so bold as to doubt the availing efficacy of the intercession of saints.
The Countess Egmont succeeded in obtaining theintercession of almost every German court in behalf of her husband.
And to what, most gracious prince, Must I ascribe this favor, but to you-- Your intercession with the king?
The Pandavas too regained their lost kingdom, of which they had been deprived by the powerful sons of Dhritarashtra, not through the intercession of the fates, but by recourse to their own valour.
The royal sage Pururavas, celebrated as the descendant of Ila, attained to heaven through the intercession of the Brahmanas.
He confesses his wrong and is ordered out of the Prince's dominion; but on the intercession of Cuno, Agathe, and the Hermit the sentence is commuted to a year of probation, at the end of which time he shall marry his love.
The intercession is [Pg 310] here brought into close connection with the bearing of the sin, by which Christ represents himself as being the true sin-offering (comp.
He undertakes the office of an advocate, and makesintercession for all who, by faith, lay hold of this sacrifice.
He bore the sins of many, and poured out His soul unto death, and that He could make intercession for transgressors, because He was numbered with them.
These letters, and another to Seymour, gave great, and not unnatural offence, so that Bellingham was fain to beg the admiral's pardon and intercession with Warwick.
He begged intercession for his life and lands: failing the efficacy of such aid, he had, he said, only to shift for himself as he best could.
And these wandered about the streets of Paris seeking the intercession of delegates, Ministers, and journalists who might obtain for them admission to the presence of the new Messiah or his apostles.
But the Prussia of the Balkans, owing to the intercession of influential anonymous friends, had no such consequences to deplore.
When Christ ceases His intercession in the sanctuary, the unmingled wrath threatened against those who worship the beast and his image and receive his mark,(1074) will be poured out.
Then Jesus ceases His intercession in the sanctuary above.
His intercession is that of a pierced and broken body, of a spotless life.
It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease, and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself.
Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above, are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator.
The intercession of Christ in man’s behalf in the sanctuary above is as essential to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross.
They often met together in secluded places to commune with God, and the voice ofintercession ascended to heaven from the fields and groves.
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
The Searcher of hearts knows better than the man who conceived it, infinitely better than we who are trying for our own help to interpret it, all that this intercession means.
Prayer for ourselves must broaden out into a catholic intercession for all the servants of our Master, for all the children of the household of faith.
Round this centre the apostle's intercession must needs revolve.
This intercession breathed the spirit of the new forgiveness.
It was found, however, that her intercession was not necessary.
I am deeply to blame, and I implore your intercession with my Lord the Archbishop.
He represented himself to the porter of the castle as a poacher; stated that he had just caught a fine swan close to Caerleon; and much wished to conciliate the future intercession of the lady by presenting it to her.
I humbly beg the Compassion and protection of the Hon'ble House of Commons, and Your Honors intercession with them on behalfe of Your Honors Most Dutifull and Distressed Serv't WM.
On one side, Eunomius the Anomoean was sent into exile, but soon recalled on the intercession of the old Arian Valens of Mursa.
He had received them favourably the year before, and hisintercession was not likely to be disregarded now.
So must we conclude that this refreshing doctrine of intercession for the dead has its root in the Apostolic tree of knowledge planted by our Savior.
If she occupies so prominent a place in our pulpits, this prominence is less due to her prerogatives as a mother, or to her intercession as a patroness, than to her example as a Saint.
This principle being kept in view, how can we be justly accused of slighting God’s majesty by invoking the intercession of His handmaid?
I might easily show, by voluminous quotations from ecclesiastical writers of the first ages of the Church, how conformable to the teaching of antiquity is the Catholic practice of invoking the intercession of the Saints.
Conscious of our natural lowliness and sins, we have frequent recourse to her intercession in the assured hope of being more favorably heard.
If he desires the grace of preaching with profit the Gospel to the Gentiles, he invokes the intercession of the Ephesians.
The influence of Mary’s intercession exceeds that of the angels, patriarchs and prophets in the same degree that her sanctity surpasses theirs.
The intercessionof political authorities was invoked.
Returning to Cettinje, I found Osman there a prisoner on parole, and at myintercession he was permitted to accompany me to Ragusa, where I returned after a few days, life in Montenegro being intolerably dull except during the fighting.
Jonine told me that one day, being in Cattaro, he was accosted by a Montenegrin, who begged for his intercession with the Prince to let him out of prison.
Lubin; by his intercession a fire which had broken out in the forest, and threatened to consume it, was arrested.
Thomas-à-Becket had recourse to his intercession when he was in France, before returning to England.
Abraham then built a church in their midst, and finding that they were deaf to his exhortations, he spent his nights and days in tearful intercession for them, and then, armed with zeal, he rushed upon their idols and overthrew them.
I have begged the intercessionof my patron, the holy Apostle Saint Philip, hundreds of times.
I have sought their intercessionhundreds of times.
But he looks around the throne to see if he can find some one of the great officers and friends, or some powerful and influential person, through whose intercession he can obtain pardon.
Jeremiah promised to make intercession and to declare faithfully unto them whatsoever Jehovah should reveal unto him.
Yet Jehovah declared to Jeremiah that Manasseh's sins had irrevocably fixed the doom of Judah, so that not even the intercession of Moses and Samuel could procure her pardon.
