The orders of the Prime Minister, the free quarters afforded to the dragoons, the preachings and threatenings of the clergy, all contributed to terrify the Protestants.
It sought to put down religious enthusiasts, rightly foreseeing that by their excited preachings they would lead to the total ruin of the nation.
The discovery has recently been made of the account of their last preachings and of their tragic death, made by an eye-witness.
The preachings for the holy war, which had produced but little effect in Italy and Germany, had nevertheless been successful in the provinces of Friesland and Holland, and in some of the northern kingdoms.
We may consult, for the preachings of this crusade, the letters of Innocent III.
In it they offer to go unarmed to their preachings if the league will tender its security to them, and be willing to engage for a general meeting of the states.
Again, what was this compact of the ecclesiastics in their public preachings but a third conspiracy, entered into with the very same objects which the league of the nobles in the council of state and that of the Gueux had failed to effect?
No one can be ignorant how reluctantly I was induced to permit the preachings in the places where they had sprung up unauthorized, and this surely cannot be counted for a concession of freedom in religion.
If the preachings come to an end, if the image breakers are punished, the king's anger will be appeased.
X Since June, the month of roses, the preachings had begun in the country of Flanders.
Seeing that common people of low understandings, are impressed by the preachings of their parish parsons; I have every reason to believe that my sermons must make their impression, upon the good understanding of Rama.
My mind is now as pure, as the purified water of filtering machine; and am no more in need of learning any thing, from the preachings and moral lessons of the wise.
The second part is an attempt to point out, and comment on, the many and wide divergences that have grown up between the preachings of Jesus and the practices of His professed followers.
The only instruction as to the subject-matter of their preachings is that they shall say "the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt.
FN#113] Bodhiruci says to the effect that the preachings in the first five assemblies were made in the first week, and the rest were delivered in the second week.
We believe that about this time some of the Buddha's preachings were reduced to writing, for the missionaries despatched by the King in the year following the council seem to have set out with written sutras.
Even in this council of Vaisali we cannot find the fact that the Master's preachings were reduced to writing.
The author divides the whole preachings of the Master into the three periods that he might place the Idealistic doctrine in the highest rank of the Mahayana schools.
They are entirely different from the sutras of Hinayanism, and cannot be taken as the preachings of one and the same person.
Their preachings under the porticoes of Solomon were addressed to circles not at all numerous.
It was inevitable that the preachings of the new sect, although delivered with so much reserve, should revive the animosities which had accumulated against its Founder, and eventually brought about his death.
Azote and the Gaza route were the limits of the first evangelicalpreachings toward the south.
Buddha and Jesus were, on the other hand, entirely spiritualistic, their ideas on many subjects much the same, and their preachings and teachings run together very much on parallel lines.
His attendance at sundry preachings and poetical and eloquent recitations at Okatz, where it is said he imbibed the first lessons of the art of poetry and the power of rhetoric, and also acquired certain religious sentiments.
And she, like ony merry may, At fairs maun still be seen, At kirkyard preachings near the tent, At dances on the green.
There is too much truth in your remark, Ben; and I have often been sorry that our preachers lay such stress on these things, and do not stick closer to the preachings of Christ.
I am sorry to hear that, Ben; very sorry that you could neglect the preachings of Christ.
It was only from the time of his association with Barnabas (year 45) that he entered upon that career of sacred peregrinations and preachings which made of him the type of the travelling missionary.
It was inevitable that the preachings of the new sect, even while they were disseminated with much reserve, should revive the animosities which had accumulated against its Founder, and had ultimately resulted in His death.
The missionaries themselves, however, see very little indeed of their congregations, small as they are, save at prayer-meetings and preachings once or twice in that week.
Then follow rather incoherent communications regarding the preachings of Jesus among the Guebers and other heathens.
If the preachings of Jesus had been offensive to the Hebrew priests and scribes, all they needed to do was simply to command the people not to hear and follow him, and to forbid him entrance into the temple.
Such parables were all the preachings of Christ in the Gospell, as those of the wise and foolish virgins, of the euil steward, of the labourers in the vineyard, and a number more.
Religious reformers there had been in Germany throughout the Middle Ages, but their preachings had taken no deep root.
During a part of the summer, the Reformers had been so strong in Flanders that upon a single day sixty thousand armed men had been assembled at the different field-preachings within that province.
It was always said that the preachings suppressed, had not been established previously to that arrangement; but the preachings had in reality obtained almost every where, and were now universally abolished.
The preachings were as enthusiastically attended as ever, while the storm which had been raging among the images had in the mean time been entirely allayed.
The preachings were forbidden, and the ministers and congregations arrested and chastised, even in places where the custom had been established previously to the 23d August.
The ridiculous quibble was also used that, in the preachings other religious exercises were not included, whereas it was notorious that they had never been separated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preachings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
