Neither grammar then, nor rhetoric, nor any kind of misguided preceptive teaching should be allowed to introduce into the school the menace of realism which lurks naturally in the shadow of all prescriptive systems.
Grammars too, like spelling primers and rhetorics and logic and every kind of preceptive teaching, may be assumed as a form separated from its contents, as something empty and abstract.
The general burden and strain of the Discourse with which the Redeemer opened His ministry is preceptive and mandatory.
But the mildness of Christ is not seen, certainly, in the ethical and preceptive part of His religion.
That the preceptive will of God is to be our only rule of duty, few Christians deny.
To ascertain our duty we must look at the preceptive will of God and not to his eternal counsel.
The knowledge communicated to us of thepreceptive will of God to his church, under the first dispensation, is very limited.
But there is a great difference between his decretive and his preceptive will.
Thus far they are correct, but it is apprehended that they do not make a proper distinction between the ordination of God and his preceptive will for man.
Defn: Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
God, it appears a manifest abuse of this text, to apply it to every one advanced by providence to the place of supreme rule, not only without any regard, but in direct opposition to the preceptive will of God.
These, with a number of other absurdities, natively flow from a denial of the distinction between the providential and preceptive will of God, making the title of the lawful magistrate depend solely upon the will of the people.
If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will.
But it is against the preceptive will of God that there should be tyrants: therefore to pray that these may be preserved in the world, cannot fall under a command of God.
The minor also; for the power of tyrants is not moral, because not authorized, nor warranted, or ordained of God by his preceptive ordinance, and therefore no lawful magistratical power.
What command can there be for praying for that, which is against the preceptive will of God?
He had both providence turning about the kingdom to him, and also the warrant of the Lord's approbative and preceptive will.
The preceptive norm of morality is that which points out duty with respect to good and evil.
Negative or prohibitory laws have precedence over affirmative or preceptive laws (see 371).
If the law is preceptive of a payment to be made, knowledge is not necessary, since the law requires nothing more than the effect of an external act.
Thus, according to one opinion they oblige in conscience and under sin, that is, as preceptive laws (see 561 sqq.
If the law is preceptive of an act to be performed, knowledge is required, for it is supposed that the act will be exercised in a human manner.
Many civil laws are commonly regarded nowadays as disjunctively preceptive or penal; and, since the custom of the prudent affords a good norm of interpretation (see above, 484 sqq.
In its affirmative, or preceptive aspect, this commandment obliges for all times, but not at all times.
Thus, many regard laws that make betting illegal as preceptive under venial sin, while others regard them as punitive only.
The preceptive rubrics oblige sub gravi as to notable matter (e.
Purely preceptive laws are such as oblige under pain of sin, but not under pain of punishment.
As to the sinfulness of such a contract, that depends on whether or not the law is penal or preceptive in intent.
Sin in the sight of God is something which God in his word makes known to be wrong, either by preceptive prohibition, by principles of moral fitness, or examples of inspired men, contained in the sacred volume.
The Apostle Paul decides in reference to the relative duties of men, that whether written out in preceptive form in the law or not, they are all comprehended in this saying, viz: "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
It is unnecessary to say that these views are entirely subversive of Hindooism, invoking the rejection of its sacred books as well as its preceptive rites and most cherished practices.
Therefore within the membership of this republic and the dependencies thereof, marriage is specially commended to the care of the Preceptive and Parentive circles.
In every statute and preceptive word of the Holy Spirit, it is always wife, and not wives.
They would understand these preceptive parts of the Scriptures, but I think that they would not understand the speculative parts, and hence they would be in danger of forming wrong opinions on religious subjects.
One deep purpose of acceptance was to glorify the Law, making the preceptive Will of God as dear to the justified as it is terrible to the guilty.
The Law cannot die, for it is the preceptivewill of God.
It is the function of the Law, the moral place of the preceptive Fiat, in view of this wonderful Acceptance of the guilty.
The Gentile meanwhile is shewn, in passing but with gravest purpose, to be by no means exempted from accountability simply for his lack of a revealed preceptive code.
The "law," the preceptive will, which legislates the covenant of blessing for all who are in Christ, has set him free.
We dare to say, it is the preceptive will of Sinai; "Do this, and thou shalt live.
