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Example sentences for "public confession"

  • Elder John Smith thought that for Brother Sylvester to make a public confession in the Star, would be the way to heal the wound.

  • Greene said, that if Brother Sylvester would view this thing in its proper light, he would be willing to make a public confession, and send it forth; and he advised him to do this for the salvation of the churches abroad.

  • Benj'n Owen made a public confession of his offence, and was restored to the charity of the Church.

  • Joseph, a negro man, and Tabitha his wife made a public confession of the sin of fornication, committed each with the other before marriage, and desired to have the ordinance of Baptism administered to them.

  • Charles S---- and wife made a public confession of the sin of fornication.

  • Brother Joseph Parmenter made a public Confession, in the presence of the Congregation for the sin of drunkenness.

  • My sins cannot be redeemed except by a public confession.

  • According to her present decision secret confession has taken the place of public confession.

  • Upwards of five thousand Jews made a public confession of their faith in Christ, and were baptized into the same.

  • As soon as one enquirer came forth to make a public confession of his faith in Christ, Daniel was exposed to ill-treatment from his unbelieving brethren, and at last compelled to return to Jerusalem.

  • The result was that he made a public confession of his faith, and was baptized by Pastor Pfeiffer, at Erlangen, in 1750.

  • It is in order that we may induce others to pray for us that we are to confess our sins to them; and this is the great motive which underlies the public confession of the primitive Church.

  • But experience soon showed that indiscriminate public confession of grievous sins was very mischievous.

  • Of pastoral discipline, public confession, absolution, and exclusion from the holy communion of the church.

  • The church had ever in this place required of its members guilty of unlawful cohabitation before marriage, a public confession of that crime before the whole congregation.

  • In 1781 the church gave the confessing parties the privilege of making a private confession to the church, in the room of a public confession.

  • Public confession of unlawful cohabitation made in New England, 75.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    children must; economic power; foot trefoil; mais qui; political institutions; public assembly; public authority; public character; public funeral; public health; public house; public improvements; public life; public meetings; public park; public prayer; public right; public sale; public scandal; public spirit; public taste; public trust; public work; publication office; publicly display; quite fresh