Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as intervenience.

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  • noun intervention; interposition

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Examples

  • This is the first, principal, extraordinary interveniency that must make an addition to the time of preparation for this ordinance.

    Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

  • Is there an interveniency upon the conscience of any special sin, that either the soul hath been really overtaken with, or that God is pleased to set home afresh upon the spirit? — there is then an addition to be made unto the time of our preparation, to bring things to that issue between God and our souls that we may attend upon the ordinance, to hearken what God the

    Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

  • An interveniency of apostasy, — that is, defection from the faith, — is not handsomely supposed whilst men continue in the faith.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Whereas, therefore, one essential part of justification consists in the pardon of our sins, and sins cannot be actually pardoned before they are actually committed, our present inquiry is, whereon the continuation of our justification does depend, notwithstanding the interveniency of sin after we are justified, whereby such sins are actually pardoned, and our persons are continued in a state of acceptation with God, and have their right unto life and glory uninterrupted?

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • A will of dealing with us, or an actual dealing with us, according unto that which is so made ours; for in this matter whereof we treat, the most holy and righteous God does not justify any, — that is, absolve them from sin, pronounce them righteous, and thereon grant unto them right and title unto eternal life, — but upon the interveniency of a true and complete righteousness, truly and completely made the righteousness of them that are to be justified in order of nature antecedently unto their justification.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • [107] In this essay he had laid down the position, that “as the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were immediately and entirely given out by God himself, — his mind being in them represented to us without the least interveniency of such mediums and ways as were capable of giving change or alteration to the least iota or syllable, — so, by his good and merciful providential dispensation, in his love to his Word and church, his Word as first given out by him is preserved unto us entire in the original languages.”

    Life of Dr Owen 1965

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