The "Gentiles" have not the fulness of the Gospel, nor the powers of the Priesthood; they are not the oracles of God, nor the ministers of salvation.
The ministers of the various sects united in calling upon the people to repent; each one urging them to join his particular congregation, and disputing among themselves upon points of doctrine and authority.
Fourth: Some of the difficulty must rest with us asministers of the Gospel.
Second: I sometimes think that the darkness is increasing because as ministers we fail to preach concerning sin.
We somehow seem to think that we cannot work as ministers without a fine equipment.
The ministers were preaching in turn each day and when it came my time to preach I could find in all the audience scarcely one of my people.
In meetings in California one of the ministers went forth during the week to invite those who were away from Christ to come to him.
First: I would not preach to others what I did not first preach to myself, but there are many of us as ministers like Chalmers, who was one day visiting an old man seventy-two years of age, apparently in perfect health.
At such a time the king takes hold of a golden plough, the attendantministers one hundred and eight minus one silver ploughs, and the peasants the rest of the ploughs.
And one day, as the king was passing near the nunnery, he heard the cry of a child, and asked his ministers the reason.
Since he thus reigned with justice, with justice also hisministers administered the law.
And the Bodisat and many other ministers went there also.
As the royal family became less worthy, the powers of government gradually slipped from its hands into those of a series of ministers commonly known by the title of Mayor of the Palace (Maior Domus).
As for his soul, God preserved it through the pious instructions of his mother, who taught him to believe in God and to love Him, and placed about him none but ministers of religion.
There had also been numberless skirmishes, both by day and by night, in which Alfred, with his ministers and chieftains and their men, were engaged without rest or relief against the pagans.
Work that serves some practical end, or ministers directly to some pleasure of the senses, will never have any difficulty in being duly appreciated.
And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers.
Ministers and disciples of Christ, when you see the repenting sinner smiting his breast and crying: "Oh, God!
Herr von Hartoff gave them an account of my request; and brought me for answer, 'That I must wait a little, because the Ministers were not yet all assembled.
After all, most young fellows are of his party; and wish he may bring matters to a War; for they make but ill Ministers at a Congress, but would make good Soldiers in a Campaign.
Immediately afterwards he reported it to the Ministry, and brought me this answer: 'That the Ministers of this Court would be as good as their word of yesterday, and answer the above-mentioned Letter with all possible expedition.
Discharging a double office, therefore, itministers life to the body when it is present, and the cause of its change, when it departs.
On this account we are now burning in these infernal torments, together with other lovers of slaughter and of rapine; and hither also will your bishops and ministers come, who now delight to act as we did.
Medicine, which ministers to the health of the body, I studied with somewhat more attention.
And not only the king, but the nobility, even those who were secretly stung with envy at his good fortune, and more especially the ministers and debtors of the king, gave him almost whatever he could fancy.
Or probably," said Dashall, "an author in search of ideas for his next publication, wherein he intends to cut up the ministers and their measures.
To cheer up His Majesty,--win his good graces, And keep his lov'd Ministers still in their places!
Hard is the fortune which your Sex attends, Women, like princes, find few real friends; All who approach them their own ends pursue, Lovers and ministers are seldom true.
If, my Lord, I had been an impostor, it was the duty of Ministers to have enquired into my claims, and to have exposed them if unjust or illegal.
He also took notice of the new Ministers of State, Sir H.
Most of our discourse was what ministers are flung out that will not conform: and the care of the Bishop of London that we are here supplied with very good men.
He pities the poor ministers that are put out, to whom, he says, the King is beholden for his coming in, and that if any such thing had been foreseen he had never come in.
The essence of the report was its recommendation of the principle of "diarchy," or division of governmental responsibility between councillors nominated by the British executive and ministers chosen from elective legislative bodies.
Her ministers vow almost before they have crossed the threshold of manhood that they will search no more.
As willing ministers of God's pleasure, to other signs they give regard, proving themselves a living sign.
At a period long posterior to the days of Moses, and in reference even to gospel times, was applied the same character, "Ye shall be named the priests of the Lord; men shall call you the ministers of our God.
In one case, the ministers of the Community to whom we now direct our thoughts, have nobly cast the latter aside.
The orthodoxy of the ministers in general of the separated Church is undoubted.
Where the ministersof the word are, there, to a greater or less extent, will be a Church.
Both deny that any in societies not in communion with them, have a right to be reckoned the ministers of religion, or to dispense any of its ordinances.
And lawful civil rulers are represented as theministers of God, and consequently as acting in the capacity of servants, voluntarily devoted to His service, not merely in their personal, but also in their public character.
Easy all of this: only the Vienna Ministers are dreadfully in doubt about the ceremonial, Whether the Imperial hand can be given (I forget if for kissing or for shaking)?
At a time when resistance seemed supremely improbable, yet, because amongst the headlong desperations of a confounded faction even this was possible, the ministers determined to deal with it as a certainty.
At present it remains only to express our fervent hope, that ministers will drive "home" the nail which they have so happily planted.
If this be so, there is an answer in full to the Whigs, who at this moment (October 23) are arguing that no circumstances of any kind have changed since our ministers treated the Repeal cause with neglect.
The records of these noble ministers of the Word are on high.
Other active and able ministers of that day, a few of whom I will here name, all living in the Shenandoah Valley, would cheerfully go with him; but he led the way.
He goes to church with his family; behaves genteelly; invites the ministers to his house, and entertains them very hospitably.
This is particularly the case with such as have been trained to regard what their own denominational ministers preach as being the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
He does this through the faithfulministers who preach it.
Many can now say that one or the other of these ministers performed the ceremony when their father and mother were married.
And more than once did the two brethren ministers feast on venison in the present journey, for it was the chosen season for deer hunting.
Thurman regularly elected and put in as ministers of the Word.
Whether we are as humble and self-denying in all things as we should be, is a subject for self-examination, not only on the part of our lay brethren, but as well on the part of us who are ministers of the Word.
These you must never own as ministers of Christ, that are utterly uncapable of it.
Speak always before them with great honour and praise of holy ministers and people, and with dispraise and loathing of every sin, and of ungodly men.
But if he say to all ministers of the gospel, you shall forsake your wives or your ministry, they should do neither, because they are divinely obliged to both, and he hath no power to forbid them, or to dispense with that obligation.
Ministers must teach from house to house; therefore rulers themselves must do it, Acts v.
Remember that ministers are the messengers of Christ, and come to you on his business and in his name.
Spend not any of it in play or idleness: reverence the ministers of Christ, and mark what they teach you, and remember it is a message from God about the saving of your souls.
I shall first name the inconveniencies common to all, and then some that are proper to the ministers of the gospel, which have a greater reason to avoid a married life than other men have.
When they find you speak to them but the same things whichministers and other christians speak, it will be the more easily received.
It is odious in ministers that take the charge of souls, to betray them by their negligence, and be guilty of their everlasting misery; but in parents it is more unnatural, and therefore more inexcusable.
But the ministers of Spain and of Great Britain had not been quiet.
Far into the night they talked, so late that the ministers slept at St. Cloud.
Hasten," the ministers warned Jefferson, "the slightest delay may lose us the country.
With this object, the Provisional Committee will name ministers of the first national cabinet, men whose past public activity assures them the confidence of the country.
Francis, presented the Root mission to the Council of Ministers in the Marinsky Palace, and Mr. Root made an eloquent address, declaring the sympathy of the American Republic with the new Russian Democracy.
The treaty between Russia and the Central Powers was formally denounced by the Premiers and Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, France, and Italy, and was not recognized by the Allied nations.
His vacillation, his appointment of ministers who were not only reactionary, but were suspected of being German tools, were too much for even honest supporters of the Imperial regime.
Lightning rods were vehemently denounced by many ministers as an unwarranted interference with God's use of lightning.
And now, ministers of Christ, with such a motive, we see continually some of the dearest things we work for, some of the fairest results that we achieve, going to pieces on the rocks of the business world.
To be sure, manyministers make fools of themselves when they pass judgment on questions which they do not understand.
Do you suppose that we ministers do not know how we must appear to you when we try to discuss the details of business?
If you mean, by your distaste for the Church's interest in a fairer economic life, that most ministers are unfitted by temperament and training to talk wisely on economic policies and programs, you are right.
Henry Ward Beecher once said that a text is a small gate into a large field where one can wander about as he pleases, and that the trouble with most ministers is that they spend all their time swinging on the gate.
I speak, I am sure, in the name of thousands of Christian ministers in this country endeavouring to do their duty in this trying time.
I could mention an ordination which took place about twenty years ago at which I myself was ashamed and grieved to see two aged ministers literally drunk, and a third indecently excited.
The information upon which ministers proceeded, in frustrating the schemes of the conspirators, was derived from a man named Edwards, who pretended to enter into their views, for the purpose of betraying them.
On the 9th of the same month Earl Grey announced in the Lords, and Viscount Althorp in the Commons, that ministers had resigned.
He next proposed that we should attack the ministers at the fete given by the Spanish ambassador.
I would explain the motives which induced me to conspire against the ministers of his majesty, and I would contrast them with those which those very ministers have acted upon in leading me to my ruin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ministers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
