The church hath, by divine institution, delivered the power of ordaining ordinary ministers to the presbytery, whereof the church consisteth repræsentative.
But if she had not the power of ordaining ministers unto herself when she needeth, then might she sometimes be deprived of such an ordinary and certain way of providing herself.
The abuse of ordaining slaves without the consent of their masters had spread; this abuse is checked.
On the other hand, the nature of things shows that Providence, in ordaining the destinies of the world, did not establish the paternal as the source of the civil.
From Diarbekir the missionaries and six of the pastors went to Mardin, whence, afterordaining one pastor, they went a journey of five days to Sert.
The ordaining services were necessarily in the open air, and were conducted in Armenian, Turkish, and Arabic.
For here is his command ordaining the office: 'Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
The phrase "law of nature" involves a self-contradiction, when used to denote a mode of action or an order of sequence behind which there is conceived to be no intelligent and ordaining will.
Hence Wesleyans make faith a work, and regard election as God's ordaining those who, he foresees, will of their own accord believe.
It implies: (a) A divine Law-giver, or ordaining Will.
For when do bishops come over from Gaul, that they may be present as witnesses to you in ordaining a bishop?
In His great compassion the Blessed One accomplished His infinite wisdom in His divine promise, ordaining that womanhood shall be raised into manhood.
As he had anticipated, on the day of the canvass a letter was received from the ministers, ordaining the re-election of the mayor without modification or explanation of any kind; an affront which so exasperated M.
He acted thus on his very first missionary journey, ordaining by the imposition of hands accompanied with prayer and fasting, as we learn from the fourteenth chapter and twenty-third verse.
He divided the city into regions and districts, ordaining that the annual magistrates should take by lot the charge of the former; and that the latter should be superintended by wardens chosen out of the people of each neighbourhood.
He accommodated the year to the course of the sun, ordaining that in future it should consist of three hundred and sixty-five days without any intercalary month; and that every fourth year an intercalary day should be inserted.
The Romans, besides, razed his house, and built there a temple to the goddess they call Moneta, ordaining for the future that none of the patrician order should ever dwell on the Capitoline.
Alexander Mackenzie was appointed minister at Gairloch - the first after the Reformation - and in 1583 he obtained a decree from the Lords of the Privy Council and Session ordaining the teind revenue to be paid to him.
The exception, which followed the voting of four entire subsidies to the King, was an Act ordaining "that this Parliament shall not determine by his Majesty's assent to this and other Bills.
The party, however, which favoured Gregory took the lead, and ordaining him pope, called him Innocent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
