Use "ecclesiastical" in a sentence

1. The great benefices and other ecclesiastical dignities support the honour of the church

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2. Such are the people who compose a numerous and splendid court, a great ecclesiastical establishment, great fleets and armies, who in time of peace produce nothing, and in time of war acquire nothing which can compensate the expense of maintaining them, even while the war lasts

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3. Industry is there neither free nor secure; and the civil and ecclesiastical governments of both Spain and Portugal are such as would alone be sufficient to perpetuate their present state of poverty, even though their regulations of commerce were as wise as the greatest part of them are absurd and foolish

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4. Their ecclesiastical government is conducted upon a plan equally frugal

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5. In the colonies of all those three nations, too, the ecclesiastical government is extremely oppressive

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6. The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen

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7. They were founded by the authority of the pope; and were so entirely under his immediate protection, that their members, whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction of the countries in which their respective universities were situated, and were amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals

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8. And in this manner ecclesiastical establishments, though commonly they arose at first from religious views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society

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9. This plan of ecclesiastical government, or, more properly, of no ecclesiastical government, was what the sect called Independents (a sect, no doubt, of very wild enthusiasts), proposed to establish in England towards the end of the civil war

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10. All the inferior ecclesiastical benefices comprehended within the diocese were collated by the bishop, who bestowed them upon such ecclesiastics as he thought proper

11. How dangerous must it have been for the sovereign to attempt to punish a clergyman for any crime whatever, if his order were disposed to protect him, and to represent either the proof as insufficient for convicting so holy a man, or the punishment as too severe to be inflicted upon one whose person had been rendered sacred by religion ? The sovereign could, in such circumstances, do no better than leave him to be tried by the ecclesiastical courts, who, for the honour of their own order, were interested to restrain, as much as possible, every member of it from committing enormous crimes, or even from giving occasion to such gross scandal as might disgust the minds of the people

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12. ecclesiastical history, and with the origin and progress of that system of opinions upon which the authority of the church was established ; and they had thereby the advantage in almost every dispute

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13. Those concerning the government of the church, and the right of conferring ecclesiastical benefices, were perhaps the most interesting to the peace and welfare of civil society

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14. ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the parish

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15. Similar taxes, though not quite so heavy, take place in the Milanese, in the states of Genoa, in the duchy of Modena, in the duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, and the Ecclesiastical state

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16. ecclesiastical office? Titus 1:5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint

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17. Sinking funds have generally arisen, not so much from any surplus of the taxes which was over and above what was necessary for paying the interest or annuity originally charged upon them, as from a subsequent reduction of that interest ; that of Holland in 1655, and that of the ecclesiastical state in 1685, were both formed in this manner

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18. Trojan Horses bearing Ecclesiastical Heretics have been quietly infiltrating our religious institutions and subverting traditional church 29

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19. Disgruntled Catholics, (including the Clergy), operating within the Church, are precursors of The Antichrist; unwittingly paving the way for his eventual return; preparing a spiritual wasteland, confounding all aspects of Church doctrines and teachings superseding authoritative truths with (spiritually) vague and uncertain ecclesiastical notions pandering to the whims of an uninformed Conscience; discrediting revealed wisdoms and traditional customs inspired by the Holy Spirit

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20. I am certain that the good sisters of Saint Cecilia‘s properly explained to young Ian that Pilate was never convinced, ―I find no guilt in him‖, of Christ‘s guilt and that the trumped-up charges of Treason and Sedition leveled against Him by the High Priests were unfounded and unsupported by so-called ―witnesses‖ brought to bear testimony against Him; but manufactured, however, by religious leaders who considered Him (Christ) a threat to their ecclesiastical authority

21. The United Free Church, hardly a major player on today’s ecclesiastical stage, is already in a covenant relationship with the Church of Scotland

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22. The UF Church is as much of a mixture as the Church of Scotland when it comes to ecclesiastical polity

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23. “The Papal Curia opened an ecclesiastical trial against him (Aug

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24. Would Luther have gone on to discover such a glaring flaw in the ecclesiastical structure of this Catholic version of the Christian church had he not had his honor and life so threatened by this new priestly class? Had they, as he accused them, fallen away into this “new perversion” of those First Works?

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25. rest of the book is taken up with the laws, chiefly the ecclesiastical laws, which God

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26. : Whereas the late King James the Second by the assistance of various evil counsellors judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom; By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament; By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power; By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called the Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes; Continued (As per U

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27. Despite that absolute injunction, backed by both ecclesiastical and royal authority, Leoba stubbornly wishes to see the Holy Land

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28. Her work in the scriptorium is always a joy to behold: she blends the modern and the classic, the Roman and the Celtic, in ways that I had never before imagined -- but you can see for yourself; I have enclosed a copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History that Leoba produced, on her own -- she made not only the golden script, but the goat-skin pages themselves, and the painted leather cover, and the decorations on the spine -- all wonderful, as you can see, though made by a rebellious and insolent Nun!

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29. Leoba has snarled at me many times, in that insolent voice of hers, that ecclesiastical law does not allow me to punish Nuns with death or to confine her indefinitely

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30. Let me assure you, my precious friend, that when I saw the copy of Ecclesiastical History you sent me, I gave voluble thanks to God for having such a friend in my journeys in these distant parts; one who helps me so generously with material things, and supports me spiritually with her prayers and the divine consolation of her gentle affection

31. The ecclesiastical council of Whitby prescribed, over two decades ago, that every Nun shall remain where she has been placed

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32. Sister Ilia Delio, a neuro-pharmacologist and associate professor of spirituality and ecclesiastical history at Washington Theological Union, believes that because human beings are created by God, they have the means, including the ‘hard-wiring’ of the brain, to know God

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33. This should seem harmless in order to escape the prosecution view of the ecclesiastical authorities and survive to the action of the fire to which it would be condemned if its essential nature was discovered

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34. ecclesiastical worship, so that devout believer can transcend, through its symbolic formulations, to the essence

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35. 4 Religious peace -- brotherhood -- can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty

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36. 6 The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty

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37. 4 The previous day the rulers had sought to trip him before the multitude on matters of ecclesiastical authority, and having failed, they now sought to involve him in a damaging discussion of civil authority

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38. The remembrance supper was established without ecclesiastical sanction

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39. And this he did because the Romans were in the habit of dealing directly with Annas in all matters having to do with the enforcement of the Jewish ecclesiastical laws

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40. The Jews feared to say aught to John or to molest him in any way because he had something of the status of a Roman counselor designated to act as observer of the transactions of the Jewish ecclesiastical court

41. The former high priest desired to maintain his prestige as the chief ecclesiastical authority of the Jews

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42. Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus

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43. we could have him up before the ecclesiastical court of this

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44. retired from ecclesiastical duties and was now managing the

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45. The ecclesiastical delegates who had come to investigate the report of the strange death of the birds and the sacrifice of the Wandering Jew found Father Antonio Isabel playing blind man’s buff with the children, and thinking that his report was the product of a hallucination, they took him off to an asylum

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46. Inflamed, not so much because of the damage as because of the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o-nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of mortification and penance, and drove the children out of the house, howling like a madman and whipping them without mercy as a person would not even have done to a pack of coyotes

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47. He and his ecclesiastical staff had been in full damage control mode since yesterday, doing everything possible to save the local reputation of the Church

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48. Every member of the ecclesiastical body worked

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49. All the baptized members, whether men or women, if we may judge from the 16th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, took a direct active interest in the welfare and progress of the whole ecclesiastical body

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50. But from one cause or another they are left out in the cold, passive recipients and not active members, in a huge ecclesiastical corporation,�sleeping partners, and not working agents in an unwieldy and ill-managed concern

51. To make the clergy mediators between Christ and man,�to exalt them far above the laity, and put all ecclesiastical power into their hands,�to clothe them with sacerdotal authority, and regard them as infallible guides in all Church matters,�this has always been an essential element of the Romish system

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52. Fallen below their due position, the English laity, with occasional brilliant exceptions, have taken little interest in Church matters, and have been too ready to leave everything ecclesiastical to be managed by the clergy

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53. " The rule applies to ecclesiastical corporations as well as to commercial ones

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54. The words of the judicious Hooker are worth remembering: "Till it be proved that some special law of Christ hath forever annexed unto the clergy alone the power to make ecclesiastical laws, we are to hold it a thing most consonant with equity and reason, that no ecclesiastical laws be made in a Christian commonwealth, without consent as well of the laity as of the clergy

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55. It is a public acknowledgment that the time has come when lay Churchmen must be asked to take a more active interest in the affairs of the Established Church, and that their past torpid position, as sleeping partners in the great ecclesiastical concern, can no longer be maintained

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56. The new ecclesiastical machinery may work awkwardly at first, like a new steam-engine, when its joints are stiff, and its bearings hot

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57. " Will anyone tell me there is no inward danger, when the real presence, and the Romish confessional, and ecclesiastical lawlessness, and Home Rule, are quietly tolerated on one side, and the atonement, and Christ's divinity, and the inspiration of Scripture, and the reality of miracles, are coolly thrown overboard on the other? Will anyone tell me there is no outward danger, when infidels, Papists, and Dissenters are hungering and thirsting after the destruction of the Establishment, and compassing sea and land to accomplish their ends?�What Z no danger, when myriads of our working classes never enter the walls of our Church, and would not raise a finger to keep her alive, while by household suffrage they have got all power into their hands! What! no danger, when the Irish Church has been disestablished, the Act of Union has been trampled underfoot, Protestant endowments have been handed over to Papists, the thin edge of the wedge for severing Church and State has been let in, and the statesman who did all this is still alive, and thought by many to be infallible

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58. In our own time, the lay members of ecclesiastical Conventions in the United States have not unfrequently exhibited a more moderate and conservative tone than their clerical brethren

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59. Of course we may say and believe anything we please in a free country like England, and this idea of an ecclesiastical regeneration cuts the knot of some difficulties, and has always satisfied some minds

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60. John's First Epistle, most certainly means a great deal more than being admitted into a state of ecclesiastical privilege! To say, for instance, "Whosoever is baptized doth not commit sin,�and overcometh the world," would be ridiculous, because untrue,- Moreover, the Church Catechism distinctly teaches that the inward and spiritual grace in baptism is not a mere ecclesiastical change, but "a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness

61. The poor and simple-minded cannot take in the idea of ecclesiastical regeneration!

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62. What does Richard Hooker, in his "Ecclesiastical Polity," say?

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63. Think of the ecclesiastical heads of the Jewish Church Annas and Caiaphas

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64. Court selects an ecclesiastical official, and the Cabinet selects

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65. It could weigh heavily against us in an ecclesiastical court

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66. I'm as sleepy and as much satiated by ecclesiastical good things as though I had been the whole day in church

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67. The school children were still learning about Bismarck's birthday, the schoolmaster was still laboriously computing attendances and endeavouring to obey the difficult law which commanded him to cane the absent, the elders of the church were still refusing to repair the steeple in time, the confirmation class was still meeting explanations and exhortations with thick inattention, the ecclesiastical authorities were still demanding detailed reports of progress when there was not and could not be progress, couples were still forgetting marriage until the last hurried moment and then demanding it with insistent cries, infants were still being hastily christened before the same neglects that killed those other infants who else might have been their proud and happy grandparents carried them off, and peasants were still slinking away at the bare mention of intelligence and manure

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68. Herr Ingram, of course, an artist of renown--if he had not been of very great renown they could not have seen their way to admitting him on terms of equality into their circle--might paint whoever's hair he pleased; but was there not some ecclesiastical law forbidding that the hair of one's pastor's wife should be painted? To have one's hair painted when one was a pastor's wife was hardly more respectable than having it dyed

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69. While this analogy is not absolute, it is not without merit since the Saudis propagate an ecclesiastical influence beyond their kingdom by sponsoring mosques and religious schools around the globe

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70. ecclesiastical ritual and its chief protagonists, the priests

71. The next few days were busy for Stratos and Lea with the municipal and ecclesiastical bureaucracies

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72. I believe them to be ecclesiastical and political combined

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73. As a matter of fact, evil wears a coat of many colors, and dresses in the philosopher’s cloak, as well as in the richest ecclesiastical costume

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74. Christendom likewise has its 'oral law,’ its unwritten tradition, on which rests the fabric of modern ecclesiastical religion

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75. After every deduction from the doctrine on the side of its Athanasian form; after stripping the statement of the article of every special ecclesiastical peculiarity, even those of the second and third centuries,— when, as Dr

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76. * An attempt has been made to prove that this view of the Atonement is modern; but in ecclesiastical literature it is as old as the epistle to Diognetus, to say nothing of its obvious presence in the apostolic epistles

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77. 38),—not even as a sign of introduction into the Church,—not as a means of grace to the child baptised,—but simply as a didactic symbol of the grace of God, which has 'come unto all men,’ that is, simply as the mark of the catechumen, can find little justification of their opinion in its practical results; for in no part of Christendom are 'baptised, children such ecclesiastical outcasts as theirs, being generally regarded as unfit for church fellowship till 'decided, or 'converted’ afterwards

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78. through with the dignity and piety of his ecclesiastical position and so he waited till the

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79. Instead of faith, there was the endless repetition of an incredible 'creed;’ in a foreign tongue; instead of spiritual discipline, oppressive ecclesiastical courts; instead of a royal priesthood of God’s elect, a hierarchy, whose alleged succession from the apostles consisted in an unbroken series of laying on of hands

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80. ’ Instead of Christ's Gospel, there was ecclesiastical law; money effected the work of grace, and church decoration shone in the room of holiness

81. has the blessing of ecclesiastical authorities and deals with problem-

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82. It was adopted by the Christian Church, which required believers to contribute 10 percent of their income for religious purposes such as ecclesiastical and legal obligation

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83. "Yet," Homais went on, "one of two things; either she died in a state of grace (as the Church has it), and then she has no need of our prayers; or else she departed impertinent (that is, I believe, the ecclesiastical expression), and then—

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84. The great crises in the history of nations have often been met by an ecclesiastical positiveness, and a more obstinate reassertion of principles which have lost their hold upon a nation

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85. He has no sympathy with the old Roman life as Plato has with Greek life, nor has he any idea of the ecclesiastical kingdom which was to arise out of the ruins of the Roman empire

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86. There’s a lot of controversy about whether or not ecclesiastical sorts banned it in medieval times out of fear it could summon the devil, him—” He breaks off and grins at me

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87. But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other

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88. My inn had once been a part of an ancient ecclesiastical house, and I dined in a little octagonal common-room, like a font

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89. Hitherto silent, whether the better to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the garb with which he was invested or in obedience to an inward voice, he delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to put asunder what God has joined

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90. The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S

91. “Only there has been a complaint to the ecclesiastical court

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92. Traditionally, the ecclesiastical court held a session on the Saturday of Fleece Fair week

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93. “I have let some townspeople believe that Mattie has been captured, and it is she who will be tried on Saturday at the ecclesiastical court

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94. GILBERT HEREFORD WAS TRIED before the ecclesiastical court, found guilty and sentenced, by Prior

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95. She had believed that invading armies invariably left ecclesiastical buildings intact

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96. “The king can’t get involved in an ecclesiastical quarrel such as this

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97. That drove the ecclesiastical element and the thought of miracles forcefully from her head

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98. There was something ecclesiastical about him, and his hostility was genuine

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