inshining

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"These and many more evil customs which had sprung up in the night of darkness and general apostasy from the truth and true religion were now, by the inshining of this pure ray of divine light in my conscience, gradually discovered to me to be what I ought to cease from, shun, and stand a witness against." [

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  1. The act or fact of shining in; permeating with light. When the soul feels the Divine inshining, all that is noble in it rises efflorescent and victorious. H. W. Beecher, Yale Lectures, 2d ser., iii. 58. N. E. D.

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  • "These and many more evil customs which had sprung up in the night of darkness and general apostasy from the truth and true religion were now, by the inshining of this pure ray of divine light in my conscience, gradually discovered to me to be what I ought to cease from, shun, and stand a witness against." [ —  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
  • These and many more evil customs which had sprung up in the night of darkness and general apostacy from the truth and true religion, were now, by the inshining of this pure ray of divine light in my conscience, gradually discovered to me to be what I ought to cease from, shun, and stand a witness against. —  The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself
 

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