Not so, argues Leo, the Lord sanctioned and hallowed the power of regeneration, not when He was baptized, but "when the blood of redemption and the water of baptism flowed forth from his side.
English law was due chiefly to new "original writs" and new "forms of action" devised by the chancery and sanctioned by the court.
But Mr. Dalton had not sanctioned nor encouraged such a regard for me, and I was proud, more than anything else, more proud than loving, more proud than persevering.
That which we believe to be, is, as effectually for us as if its existence were sanctioned and sustained by all mankind, and so far as personal conviction goes there is no standard outside the individual one.
I smiled half consciously, and thus sanctioned her belief in my domestic happiness.
The great and growing power of the reformers may be measured by the fact that the Pope whosanctioned these great bulwarks of the papal system was the once gay Alexander Farnese, Paul III, whom we otherwise know as a brother and a father.
It was a state of active flirtation, not only sanctioned but required by society.
I presume that when the Bishop of Strasburg pledged his honor that the crimes imputed by others, as well as myself, to him and his tools, were not sanctioned in his college, or by the writings of Jesuits, he had Brother Jonathan in view.
Are you prepared to deny the fact that your church was then filled with the grossest abominations, and that every one of those abominations were sanctioned by Pope Innocent III.
According to Brownson, who never utters a word until it is first approved by the Roman Catholic bishops in the United States, no form of government should be allowed, but such as that now established and sanctioned by the Pope of Rome.
In vain did the noble sentiment even of the Pagan occur to me; a sentiment sanctioned almost by inspiration itself.
An Indian marriage is not a ceremony, but a choice sanctioned by the parents of the bride, and once a child or children result from the union there is rarely infidelity or separation.
Maubert was very dazed, and also perplexed that he had not received a paper from the big, double-decked tramcar, which obviously had no right to circulate without such permission, sanctioned by himself.
Moreover, he was living in Shanghai now, where it was easy to express his feelings in the classic way approved by foreigners, and sanctioned by the customs and usages of the International Settlement.
As meaning “put into thorough adjustment or repair,” with the word up added, it is sanctioned by popular usage; but the expression is thought inelegant and indefinite.
Again “Evidence rests upon our faith in human testimony, as sanctioned by experience” (vol.
To sit on eggs” has been characterized as colloquial English, but is sanctioned by the translators of the King James version of the Bible.
United States, and not sanctioned in general usage.
Some critics object to the use of this word in the sense of confess, but it is sanctioned by literary usage and dates from the seventeenth century.
Inasmuch as its form is analogous to into, unto, upon, all of which are sanctioned by best usage, Phelps’s condemnation is perhaps a little premature.
Most is used occasionally and correctly for “very”--a use that some writers condemn as incorrect but which is sanctioned by literary usage.
Consideration was also had of the rule adopted at St. Justina's at Padua, the centre of reform in Northern Italy; and thus it was not till 1516 that the new ordinances were finally sanctioned by Leo X.
And that object is the overthrow of slavery in the United States, by such means only as are sanctioned by law, humanity, and religion.
Sustained by the truth as it exists in Nature and Revelation, sanctioned by the prevailing spirit of the age, they are yet destined to work out the political and moral regeneration of our country.
But a short time ago the slave-trade was protected by laws and treaties, and sanctioned by the example of men eminent for the reputation of piety and integrity.
The early laws of the Province prohibited slavery, and no subsequent legislation had sanctioned it; for, although the laws did recognize its existence, they did so only to mitigate and modify an admitted evil.
These bold resolves were adopted by the convention and sanctioned by the Continental Congress.
When the work of the Federal Convention was sanctioned by the Continental Congress and laid before the people of the several states, to be ratified by special conventions in each state, there was earnest and sometimes bitter discussion.
On the 11th of August, Coligny had written thus hopefully of his movements towards the Netherlands, sanctioned and aided by his King.
Meanwhile the Government sanctioned the story that he had committed suicide.
A question or principle which is religious in its nature must be sanctioned by science.
Divorce was sanctionedand polygamy allowable to a certain extent.
He wrote to the kings and rulers of the various nations, recommending that one language should be sanctioned and adopted by all governments.
For that which is productive of hatred amongst the people is rejected by God, and that which establishes fellowship is beloved and sanctioned by Him.
But during the time of Christ the exigency which had sanctioned it did not exist; therefore, it was forbidden.
For example, the laws of former centuries sanctioned despotic forms of government.
Each One has given the glad tidings of His successor’s coming and each successor has sanctioned the One Who preceded Him.
Church of England (Act of Settlement; the conditions of communion are laid down in the Prayer Book, which itself is sanctionedby law).
The first point to be noticed is the new conception of morality as the positive law of a theocratic community possessing a written code imposed by divine revelation, and sanctioned by divine promises and threatenings.
Christianity is for the most part conceived as essentially a proclamation through the Divine Word, to immortal beings gifted with free choice, of the true code of conduct sanctioned by eternal rewards and punishments.
This doctrine was sanctioned and developed by Gregory the Great.
Indeed, some of the passages which are quoted in the Search of Truth, from St Austin, show how strongly the author conceived his own opinions to be sanctioned by that ancient authority.
Such minute criticism, however, is perhaps more, than it is necessary to give to a doctrine so obviously false, even sanctionedas it is by so very eminent a name.
I say, then, that if the Roman empire did not exist by right, Christ in being born presupposed and sanctioned an unjust thing.
This arose from the very nature of their religion, which was a real worship of Nature, and had sanctioned many public customs grossly injurious to decency.
The traditions indeed, sanctioned by popular belief, warranted him in attributing great crimes to many of the old heroes, but he has also palmed upon them many base and paltry traits of his own arbitrary invention.
Mahomet's record shows that he would have sanctioned this if he had thought it for the interest of the State, and he would probably have revelled in it.
But whether the Legacy(256) was originally composed by him or approved and sanctioned by him, matters little for our purpose.
These would seem to take it for granted that we shall fall short of victory, and hence that selfish retaliative or vindictive practices between nations, sanctioned by imperialism, will continue to flourish after the war.
Nothing akin to it, sanctioned by Imperial authority, can be found in the time of any preceding emperor.
Irenaeus had sanctioned its establishment; but, when Victor became so overbearing, he took the alarm, and told him plainly that those who presided over the Church of Rome before him were nothing but presbyters.
It sanctioned the barbarism of the Rebel State Governments in denying the right of representation to their freedmen, simply because of their race and color, and thus struck at the very principle of Democracy.
God's absolute Laws, sanctioned by an eternal Heaven and an eternal Hell, have become Moral Philosophies, sanctioned by able computations of Profit and Loss, by weak considerations of Pleasures of Virtue and the Moral Sublime.
