Be compassionate as they are, in the name of your Lord Jesus Christ, and give me some oil quickly, I say--in the name of extreme unction and the garden of agony!
I have nothing here for you, and we keep the oil of extreme unction for better Christians!
Extreme unction is totally rejected by the church of England, because miraculous effects no longer follow the administration of it.
The sacrament of extreme unction administered to Kenelm.
The apostle of poverty appears here as if suspended between earth and heaven by the very strength of his love, consecrated the priest of a new worship by the inward and irresistibleunction of the Spirit.
Mr. Dixon seems to delight in keeping us on the verge of nastiness, and to have peculiar unction in reiterating such offensive epithets as the one he applies to Dean Williams.
We may take unction to ourselves for our philanthropic zeal in caring for our unfortunates in penal and eleemosynary institutions, but that will not suffice.
Her animadversions reflect upon their parents and their home life as well as themselves and she takes unction to herself by reason of her strictures.
By Penance and Extreme Unction man is prepared to receive the Body of Christ worthily.
Extreme Unction it is said, "By this anointing and our intercession," etc.
And among these, Extreme Unction is compared to Penance, as Confirmation to Baptism; in such a way, that Penance is more necessary, whereas Extreme Unction is more perfect.
For in a sense Confirmation perfects Baptism; Extreme Unction perfects Penance; while Matrimony, by multiplying them, preserves the numbers in the Church.
But, of all the sacraments, Extreme Unction is nearest to the last end which is Happiness.
Some, however, hold that Extreme Unction is ordained against venial sin.
Hence this unction is reserved to bishops, not on account of its being applied to a more worthy part of the body, but by reason of its having a more powerful effect.
The sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction are on a degree inferior to those mentioned above; because, as stated above (A.
Penance and Extreme Unction: while, of these, Extreme Unction is naturally placed last, for it preserves the healing which was begun by Penance.
I trust I can say in the deepest sincerity that I could renounce, if they were in my power, the riches and honor of ten thousand earthly worlds in purchase of a double portion of that holy unction which rested on Elisha's spirit.
I thought, had the best service; and she did it so well and so seriously that the right unction seemed to be preserved, and prevailed over us; and after a supplication in German we parted under a very precious solemnity.
Lord, grant that my ministry, which thou hast entrusted to me, may proceed purely and entirely from thy love, and be exercised in thy fear and under the unctionof thy Holy Spirit.
His heart was filled with love for me, and I felt the sweetness of his spirit to encourage me; preciously was the divine unction spread over us.
Strengthened by faith, and filled with the unctionof the Spirit, his life was devoted to doing good to the family of man, laboring for the conversion of sinners, and comforting believers.
Grant me more confidence in the immediate action of thy Spirit in the ministry of the word, that my communications of this nature may be deep and clear, and under the unction of thy Holy Spirit.
After a time of silence, Elfenbein prayed for us with unction in a few words: it was a favored time; thanks be to God.
A real unction attended while he gave us this account; the way in which he spoke of it resembled the manner of one of our Friends laying a concern before a meeting: many hearts present felt the force of his words.
And if so, this same unction must have enabled them to understand the true doctrine of the apostles on all other points of the Christian faith, as well as on the Trinity and Incarnation.
The Apostle John says to believers, 'Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and know all things; and the anointing which ye have received of him abideth with you, and ye have not need that any man teach you.
If this unction is in all true Christians, then they must all believe alike, in all ages and all places.
And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood.
And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified: 40:10.
And thou shalt pour the oil of unctionupon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.
Bearing a prominent place in these mournful visions which were beheld by the soul of Jesus, I saw Satan, who dragged away and strangled a multitude of men redeemed by the blood of Christ and sanctified by the unction of his Sacrament.
I understood that Jesus communicated to them by this unction something essential and supernatural, beyond my power to describe.
After a few moments the poet spoke again in a quieter tone, but his voice had lost none of the unction which had enriched it.
I never can remember those horrid little quotations we had to hunt up at school, and I am so sleepy with travelling all yesterday--lay that flattering unction to your soul, I mean.
No, Gertrude; you must not even apply that unction to your damask cheek--what am I saying?
Here Samuel, after withdrawing the unction from Saul, at once transfers it to David, and sets him up against his rejected predecessor as being now de jure king by the grace of God.
Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
Did well enough, but needs the special unction of the Holy Ghost.
Glory to God, I had some unction then, but felt the displeasure of some of the church.
When the procession of life moves past him he thinks he is the one who is in motion, and takes great unction to himself for his progressiveness--"and not a wave of trouble rolls across his peaceful breast.
We take great unction to ourselves for the excellence of the horses, pigs, and cattle that we have on exhibition at the fairs, but are silent as to our failures in the form of children, that drag out a half-life in our hospitals.
Teachers often take great unction in the reflection that they afford to the child his only means of education, and that but for them the child would never become educated at all.
This is, I apprehend, your ordinary state; with occasionally the unction of the oil of grace poured upon the concealed fire, to give you a sweet and clear manifestation of the loving presence of God.
All who have received the unction of the Holy One, whereby they know the truth, are agreed upon her divine writings.
Souls are won more by theunction of grace--by the weapons of love--than by the power of argument.
So I told his lie with unction at my bank, and made due arrangements for the reception of his chest next morning.
The unction with which Chiabrera relates them, warming his cold style into a glow of satisfaction, is a practical satire upon his endeavor to resuscitate the virtues of antique republics in that Italy.
