The peculiarity of the Church of England, that by which it is distinguished from orthodox Dissent, is the priestly character of its claims, and its intolerance of other sects.
We don't carry a father-confessor on board, and the poor soul left the world without any priestly assistance--that is the lot of sailors.
Once there was a royal caste, a priestly caste, a warrior caste, a servile caste; determined by blood, and unalterable.
When I dare look up to thee from my childish pursuits, I think I see a bride whose priestly robes do not betray, nor her face express, whether she is sad or joyous in her ecstasy.
Christianity has taken from them thepriestly functions they held under Polytheism.
So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc.
This in a land which has groped in the midnight of priestly superstition for sixteen hundred years!
He was one of those on whom had fallen the true priestly nature.
For surely if he had the separate Priestly and Jehovistic narratives we should now be able to decompose the Babylonian narrative just as easily as we do the one in Genesis.
There is therefore manifest connection with the narrative told by the Priestly writer.
As in the Priestly narrative, it is expressly mentioned that it was "pitched within and without.
Friedrich Delitzsch have claimed that the Genesis narrative was borrowed from the Babylonian, though "the priestly scholar who composed Genesis, chapter i.
That is, appointed and consecrated him to the priestly office.
And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger.
Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.
A priestly garment which Gedeon made with a good design; but the Israelites, after his death, abused it by making it an instrument of their idolatrous worship.
This is he that executed the priestly office in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.
Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father.
And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation.
In punishment of his usurping the priestly function.
Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off, from executing the priestlyoffice to the Lord.
And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.
All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances.
It was for love of him that she had broken the priestly law, to violate which was death, and although he had been warned of her danger, yet in his wickedness and folly he had brought her to this pass.
The great enclosure wall was not, as frequently stated, intended to isolate the temple and screen the priestly ceremonies from eyes profane.
It is commensurate with priestly indiscretion rather than with crime.
Of the holy "Dark Chamber" the priestly rites are suspended.
The application of a priestly title to the king is in accord with his royal prerogatives.
Another peculiarity was, that priestly absolution was received in place of the legal punishment of offences, and authorized an acquittal in case of arrest.
The priestly warriors acted with undaunted bravery, exhorting their men, horsewhipping them, even pistolling some who were endeavouring to seek safety in flight.
Religious functions primarily devolved on the two colleges of men of priestlylore alone known to the earliest Latin constitution, the municipal pontifices and augurs.
Almost all the posts in the service of the state are, indeed, held by the members of priestly families; they furnish governors to the provinces, and not infrequently generals to the army.
Trapp, during these three weeks, was doing his utmost, in his three metropolitan churches, to bring upon Whitefield the ridicule and contempt of the London populace; but his priestly effort was a failure.
All this priestly vituperation, on both sides, is greatly to be lamented.
That homme de paille, your priestly cousin, will take her back to the English fogs, and make her a much better husband than you'd ever be, mon garcon.
Regeneration, Piccadilly, where a fellow I know very well will act the priestly Calcraft.
It is to be hoped one of them may reward her some day, though, I believe, till they do propose, she is in the habit of advocatingpriestly celibacy, by way of assertion of her disinterestedness.
I shall go with you when you return,' he said, sitting on the edge of Orsino's table, and swinging his priestly legs in an undignified fashion.
He had but one thought--not to break the faith of his priestlyorder by betraying the confession.
In the Middle Ages all priestly functions had passed into the hands of the Church.
