Had he been aware in his inmost heart that an irreversible sentence had gone forth against his people, would he have been likely to think either excuses or intercessions availing?
That energy of Popes, those intercessions of holy men, which hitherto had found matter in the affairs of the East, now found a more urgent incentive in the troubles which were taking place at home.
From that time forth he kept himself with all vigilance, seeking to attain purity of soul and body, and living in continency and prayers and intercessions all night long.
The King also sent for hermits and other holy men, in the hope that their intercessions for his life might prevail.
And he even questioned the reliance placed in the intercessionsof the martyrs.
Certainly there is need of a much greater extension of lay preaching, and a freer recognition of the capacity of many laymen to lead the worship and intercessions of their brethren.
But his intercessions are kept within a narrower compass.
Cor 15:25) Yea, his very intercessions must live till they are all dead and gone.
This is a great encouragement to come to God by prayers and supplications for ourselves, and by intercessions for our families, our neighbours, and enemies.
Nor can this appeal be judged injurious, if it be not attended with intercessions against them that hate us.
And on June 13 he told Amsdorf that his head was gradually recovering through the intercessions of his friends, but that he despaired of regaining his natural powers.
He attributed his recovery to the intercessions which Bugenhagen had made for him in the Church.
Again he vigorously disputes with Vigilantius who asserts that prayers and intercessions must cease after death.
Why was it wrong to trust in the intercessions of the Blessed Virgin?
Yet the speech, like other speeches and intercessions made at this epoch by de Boississe and by the regular French ambassador, du Maurier, was statesmanlike and reasonable.
At last the Prince told the French ambassadors that the "people of the Provinces considered their persistent intercessions an invasion of their sovereignty.
The ambassadors continued their intercessions in behalf of the prisoners both by public address to the Assembly and by private appeals to the Stadholder and his influential friends.
And being taken with her, it may be that Giovanni listened the more readily to her intercessionson my poor behalf.
I took a deep breath, and opened my eyes, whereat the voice cried out gladly that its intercessions had been heard, and I knew that it was on my behalf that the saints of Heaven had been disturbed in their beatific peace.
From that punishment I was saved by the intercessions of Madonna Lucrezia.
But to her fresh intercessionsthat I should carry a letter to him, I shook my head again.
Are intercessions of the fervent tongue A waste of hope?
It hampered the court, by compelling it to mitigate its severities, in consequence of the importunate intercessions of its indispensable allies, the Protestant princes across the Rhine and the confederated cantons of Switzerland.
She often said, upon hearing good news, "I owe this to the intercessions of my father.
Josephine at the same time passed there the honored life of a mighty princess, whose favors and intercessions the great and the powerful of earth endeavored to obtain by every conceivable means.
The intercessions of her family, even the tears of her mother, could no longer retain Josephine; at the side of her husband, the father of her two children, there was her place!
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