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Example sentences for "rebukes"

Lexicographically close words:
rebuildings; rebuilds; rebuilt; rebuke; rebuked; rebuketh; rebuking; rebus; rebuses; rebut
  1. Then this rebukes them that esteem the words and things of men more than the words of God, as those do who are drawn from their respect of, and obedience to, the Word of God, by the pleasures or threats of men.

  2. This also rebukes those that care not, so they worship, how they worship; how, where, or after what manner they worship God.

  3. I confess I find them under rebukes and judgments in the wilderness, and that they were many times threatened to be destroyed; but yet I find not so much as one check for their receiving of members uncircumcised.

  4. It also maintains in the soul a son-like confession of sin, and a justifying of God under all the rebukes that he grieveth us with.

  5. The conclusion then is, though the rebukes of God for sin by death, and punishment after, be the rebukes of eternal vengeance, yet the eternity of that punishment is for want of merit.

  6. God would have men learn both what mercy and justice is to them, by his shewing it to others; but if they be sottish and careless in the day of forbearance, they must learn by smarting in the day of rebukes and vengeance.

  7. This rebukes such as count it enough to present their body in the place where God is worshipped, not minding with what heart, or with what spirit they come thither.

  8. How will he bear the rebukes of conscience, when he carrieth about with him so sharp and bitter an accuser?

  9. Innocent III Rebukes the English Barons for Resisting King John of England, 1216.

  10. But if he is not humbled by this and by the rebukes of his elders, and refuses to admit that he has erred, he shall be subjected to heavier punishment for his obstinacy.

  11. It is observable throughout that Niccolini is always careful to make his rebellious priest a good Catholic; and now Arnaldo rebukes Giordano for some doubts of the spiritual authority of the Pope.

  12. Adrian rebukes his weakness, saying that he learned in the cloister to subdue these compassionate impulses.

  13. Mark seems to take special pains to record rebukes of the twelve and the brethren of the Lord, and especially the rebukes called down upon themselves by Peter, or Peter and John.

  14. And then how justly the good preacher rebukes those who close their souls to truth!

  15. God bless every undertaking which revives patriotism and rebukes the indifferent and lawless!

  16. The oppression of the people by lordly ecclesiastics, of parents by their selfish children, of widows by their ghostly counsellors, drew from his lips scorching rebukes and terrible denunciations.

  17. And it was days before the matter would come round again, under earnest protestations from the one side, and truculent rebukes from the other.

  18. So does Will Allan, though overwhelmed with their rebukes about colouring and grouping, against which they are not willing to place his general and original merits.

  19. He rebukes Appius for bringing the charge against him.

  20. There was a something about Cicero which enabled him to endure such rebukes while there was aught worthy of praise in the man who rebuked him; and it was to this something that his devotion was paid.

  21. Education of the soul under the rebukes of a pastor was not to go on then.

  22. A minister of the Spirit, in the light of the Lord, rebukes the thought of man, exposing the wise and the scribe and the disputer of this world, and applying the principles of the truth of God.

  23. But with all this, he rebukes him and makes him feel the rebukes.

  24. The confirmation of the first oracle by what Balaam has realised on his second approach to Jehovah compels the question which rebukes the king's vain desire.

  25. He rebukes the niggardly criticism of those who were indignant with the "waste" of the perfume poured upon His head (xiv.

  26. He rebukes them gravely when they put a childish interpretation upon His command to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod, the formalists and the Erastian (viii.

  27. Kolloch came once more, and his sad and earnest rebukes made her unutterably wretched.

  28. Abélard explicitly and very emphatically rebukes such pretension in the very books which Bernard is supposed to have read.

  29. The notion that Rome rebukes the imperious claims of reason is one of a number of strangely-enduring fallacies concerning that Church.

  30. The Pentateuch and the historical books are full of rebukes of the Israelite passion for idolatry, which must for the most part be understood as introduced into or associated with the worship of Jehovah.

  31. King and people were not proof against the combined terrors of the prophetic rebukes and the besieging enemy.

  32. They said that they had no sin, and met the prophet's rebukes with protests of conscious innocence: "Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us?

  33. Christianity sternly rebukes the abuses complained of; and equally condemns that perversion of genius which employs those abuses to corrupt the public taste and the public morals.

  34. And partly it is the weight of unwelcome reflection, the searching and rebukes of memory, fears that come of guilt, and inward distractions of a nature estranged from the true nature of the universe.

  35. This was graciously said of a deed done to the apostles, despite their failures, rivalries, and rebukes of those who would fain speed the common cause.


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