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Example sentences for "temporal things"

  • He defines human reason as "our ability which is drawn from experience in temporal things" and declares it ridiculous to place this ability on a level with divine law[24].

  • Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things.

  • Now, then, ye are more assured of temporal things by these means than any monarch can be.

  • This was in consequence of his having administered unto us in temporal things in our distress, and also because he left the place just previous to the dedication of the Lord's House, to bring us the temporal means, previously named.

  • Take an instance of this fact: any one that loves the Lord God only for the sake of temporal things, that he may be preserved by him from temporal misfortunes, loves himself more than God, and prefers his own welfare before God.

  • In 1724, it assumed its present title, and from that time was repeatedly advertised as Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things Spiritualized, fitted for the use of boys and girls, adorned with cuts.

  • A Book for Boys and Girls Or, Temporal Things Spritualized.

  • As regards the fruits, it seems that those things correspond to the gift of fear, which pertain to the moderate use of temporal things or to abstinence therefrom; such are modesty, continency and chastity.

  • Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal Things Spiritualized, 13.

  • For by way of discovery, we come through knowledge of temporal things to that of things eternal, according to the words of the Apostle (Rom.

  • But he calls the lower reason that which "is intent on the disposal of temporal things.

  • As it is in temporal things, so it is in spiritual.

  • Although we re here directed to the sole ground of hope in the spiritual warfare, yet doubtless, in temporal things, Bunyan felt the necessity of human agency.

  • This refers evidently to the present dispensation, and evidently in its primary meaning to temporal things.

  • But should the love of Christ constrain a brother, out of the earnings of his calling to sow bountifully, he will even in this life reap bountifully, both with regard to blessings in his soul and with regard to temporal things.

  • We did not act thus because we thought it wrong that those who were ministered unto in spiritual things should minister unto us in temporal things; but 1.

  • The remote cause of fighting is an inordinate desire of temporal things, such as wealth, power, ease: "Why are there wars and disputes among you?

  • It seems to be the greatest sin against the neighbor; for other sins are against the individual or against the multitude in temporal things, while this sin is against the multitude and in spiritual things.

  • I have had experience of both ways, and know that my present mode of living, as to temporal things, is connected with less care.

  • Truly, it must be manifest to all that I have served a most kind Master, during this year also, and that, even for this life, it is by far the best thing to seek to act according to the mind of the Lord as to temporal things!

  • It cultivates a Sense of the Worthlessness of Temporal Things.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about ten; biographical sketches; civil practice; cream colour; customs officers; each hole; early period; fifteen inches; found her; general level; generally termed; great forest; guns each; inch wide; particularly important; rich land; rose from; temporal goods; temporal power; temporal punishment; temporal things; thence west; true nobility; who became; who told