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Holy Spirit doth, in and by his teaching, breathe into our hearts a holy, divine love unto and complacency in the things we are taught; when he enables us to taste how gracious the Lord is in them, rendering them sweeter unto us than the honey or the honeycomb; when he makes them our delight and joy, exciting and quickening the practical principles of our minds unto a compliance with them in holy obedience,
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Besides the love of her country and the sense of public duty, which shine out in Jephthah's daughter, notice the plain lesson of simple obedience,
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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For since He is our head, then, by the Passion which He endured from love and obedience,
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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As Charles approached Dauphiné, and made his preparations to enforce obedience,
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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When he reduced the kingdom of Misr, or Egypt, to obedience,
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After stifling an insurrection of the national party, the Arab aristocracy, and the Berbers, and reducing Toledo to obedience,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Suffice it to say here that Boniface always claimed to be the true pope, and at all times rejected the proposal to abdicate even when it was supported by the principal members of his own obedience,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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There also, more than a century before the Revolution, when Oliver Cromwell's fleet appeared to whip the rebellious Old Dominion into obedience,
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The text saith, "They that walk in the steps of that faith of Abraham:" that man that not only enjoyeth the privileges of the Church, but yieldeth the obedience of faith, according to the Word of God revealed, and walketh in obedience,
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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If one rose from the dead suddenly to command them to an awed obedience,
The Battle of the Strong — Volume 6 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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