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The question is not of a redemption, which would be absurd, but of an expiation, which is entirely consistent with faith.
Both alike glorify the Inquisition, but occasionally subordinate Mary and the saints to the great redemption of the cross.
In that mighty mingling of aversion and endurance sin must behold alike its omnipotent redemption and its omnipotent rebuke.
Agriculture revived under the shadow of peace, and the number of husbandmen was multiplied by the redemption of captives.
"Giving no pledge for redemption in the event of mistake, I am so sure, young cavalier, as to have many unquiet thoughts."
Maximilian prudently decided that it would be better to purchase the redemption of the territory with money than with blood.
It was not a certain theory on justification and redemption which brought about the Reformation; it was Luther and Calvin.
This sign of redemption, as a certain herald of modern thought remarked, weighs like a mountain upon the mind of our day.
If the debtor fails to perform this condition at the time stipulated, he is still able to enforce his equity of redemption.
Redemption may be wrought there in an infinitesimal fraction of a moment, or in that same fraction a soul may damn itself.
He lived to hear the salvos that announced, after more than two centuries of bondage, the redemption of his native State.
There was very wide-spread disgust at the apparent carelessness of those in power regarding the redemption of pledges for reforms.
Practically this means that the coinage shall cease; redemption in silver dollars will not be called for under present conditions.
Perhaps even more significant is the feeling for humanity engendered by regarding all men as the objects of a common redemption.
Whence these new and startling words, these superhuman ideas of grace, of prayer, of redemption, of a new and heavenly birth!
Instead of being sacrosanct truths affording a redemption by grace to facts otherwise ambiguous, they were the articulating of ordinary facts.
In their application to human conduct, we see the world's hope of redemption from sin and strife, from ignorance and unbelief.
In aspiring to faith and redemption, what did he, therefore, but aspire to new thrills and spasms, to unknown voluptuous sensations?
Admission was by purchase of a share in a voyage, redemption, presentation, patrimony (sons of members who were twenty-one), and apprenticeship.
Now, the impatient desire for redemption took a more mundane direction, but with something that seemed almost spiritual in its fervor.
The day was devoutly spent in prayer, reading the Word, singing Psalms, and conversing on the heart-stirring doctrines of redemption.
The terrible doom to which they were consigned was too apparent; there was nothing to foreshadow even the slightest hope of redemption.
Hospitals, reforms, schoolhouses for children, reform acts, emancipation proclamations, the Declaration of Independence, justice, and man's redemption are the results.
Your kinsman has appeared and paid the redemption price; so you are free: as completely free as if you had never been in bondage.
This town owes, to those two sovereigns, its political redemption, or elevation to the rank of a corporate town, or free borough.
What are all these comforts and splendors compared with the rescue of my country, and the redemption of an oppressed race?
Trained and thoughtful women are convinced that the first step in social redemption is adequate and adaptable shelter for the family.
To have elaborated for the nation the only plan of redemption, pointed out the only exodus from this "sea of troubles," is much.
Among these, too, there were ascetics who fasted forty days every year, in order to bring about redemption from the dispersion.
Most holy conversations on all things pertaining to the redemption of the race, belong in the places prepared in the temples.
It would be impossible, as well as impious, for men to imitate the making of the Covenant of Redemption, or of that of Works.
Does anybody imagine that gossip is one of the forces that waken conscience, and work for the redemption of our fallen brethren?
Here originated also the conception of suffering as a state of punishment, the fear of retribution, the iniquitous conscience, and the hope of redemption.
Catherine redeems him; and you gather that by that act of redemption, somehow, the souls of Catherine and Heathcliff are appeased.
Wherefore pass your sojourning in fear, and see to it that ye do not despise such redemption, and lose the noble, precious treasure.
In all of these characteristics, however, the redemption legend belongs to the following era rather than to hero saga and the heroic age.
In order to smooth the opposition of the nobility to the emancipation of their serfs, the redemption of land was not made compulsory.
They themselves complete their redemption through emancipation from the bonds of sense by means of asceticism and the practice of virtue.
The Congress lands are full adequate to the redemption of the principal of their debt, and are selling and populating very fast.
The simile of the pellet of shot occurred to us again and again, and finally suggested a scheme of redemption to include our waif.
His philosophy did not contemplate the possible redemption of anybody he had ever met in the dunes, with one or two exceptions.
For five hundred years we have awaited the Redemption, but we have only seen one wild race come after another, to murder and pillage.
Of these, however, two or three were hampered by the uncertainty as to the redemption of their best clothes from the pawnbroker.
Heretofore the patriot has relied more upon physical than moral means for the regeneration of his country and its redemption from oppression.
The fourth is the ultimate unknowable, that is to say, that which follows on after life and receives the finished product of redemption.
In 1879 the government began the redemption of the notes in specie, and since that time they have been worth their face value.
If joy and redemption had not already lain in the one quarter, the advantages of the other might have been more palpably alluring.
Such conditions were themselves incitement enough to a prompt redemption of the promise of parliamentary distinction, even without the restless spurring of ambition.
Except for Florid, none of them is truly treacherous or malicious; though some may be foolish and intolerant, they are not beyond redemption.
As a consequence of this doctrine of general redemption he lays down two axioms, of which he never loses sight in his preaching.
A total change of heart in the planters, so that many thousands of slaves may be redeemed without any cost of their redemption!
These bonds, carrying interest at different rates, were to be liquidated annually by lot, their total redemption to be effected in thirty years.
That we may continue freemen, there must be no slaves; and thus our own security is linked with the redemption of a race.
There is nothing in his look or surroundings to speak of a life of self-denial or of arduous devotion to the problems of sin and redemption.
The produce of the redemption of the estates of the clergy to be applied to the augmentation of the salaries of the parish priests.
If we trust in the efficacy of the precious blood, we are sure to remain in the state of redemption, even though severe temptations assail us.
This religion of human suffering, this redemption by pain, was not this yet another lure, a continual aggravation of pain and misery?
Yet as experience proves, occasionally it does both germinate and grow, yes, and bloom and come to the harvest of repentance and redemption.
Of the State was an accomplished fact they, no doubt, felt that they were entitled to share in the fruits of that redemption.
That is to say, divesting them of their typical dress, we have, first, redemption; and last of all, we have the millennial glory.
Simultaneously with the gradual abolition of slavery, we find the elevation of woman, and her redemption from polygamy, a natural concomitant of slavery.
The smallest sum then, at which we can expect ours, including redemption, clothing, feeding, and transportation, will be five hundred dollars each.
And again the spring-time chants deceptive hymns of liberation and redemption in his heart, as if it had the power to liberate and redeem.
Let this paper be redeemable, not in gold, but in silver, at the market ratio, on the day of redemption, of silver to gold.
This sum, together with the amount which may accrue from further redemptions under the call, will be applied to the sinking fund.
By the plan of redemption, however, a way has been opened whereby the inhabitants of the earth may still have connection with heaven.
What could more fitly mark the Redemption of the World than new and more exacting laws, if, indeed, such remained to be invented?
And, again, spring carols deceptive songs of liberation and redemption in a man's heart, as if it was in its power to liberate and redeem.
The two ladies then groaned heavily in concert, and, having thus contributed their mite to the redemption of a sinner, resumed their repast.
It is not enough for you to answer, that the first day has been blessed and sanctified, as a memorial of the work of redemption.
Could an Institution for this purpose be established, the chief difficulty in the way of the redemption of unhappy thousands would be obviated.
Redemption's plan for each sinful world is somewhat similar to ours, so that there is a oneness in the whole family of the redeemed.
In proportion, then, as the temperate throughout the country shall come up to this ground, will the redemption of our enslaved republic be accomplished.
The underside of the cover, coming in contact with the hot compound, expands and lengthens out, curling the top surface beyond redemption.
In order to see the effect of the redemption of these Treasury notes in bullion, we have but to look at the possibilities of the situation.
Persistent boiling extracted from it a passable beverage, which served until a market town was reached, but the sugar was past redemption.
It is therefore sheer nonsense to speak of the effectiveness of redemption as being commensurate with the gold resources of the Secretary of State.
The time has gone by, however, for any complacent assurance that the redemption of mankind is to be attained by a new religion of words.
We have considered, as represented in poetry and liturgy, the strictly ecclesiastical festival, the commemoration of the Nativity as the beginning of man's redemption.
It is plain to any thoughtful person that the plan of salvation which Paul preached is the scheme of redemption foretold by the prophets.
This mighty city, in her material grandeur, and, we may trust, her moral redemption, stands for forty-six indestructible States and one indivisible nation.
May she not have surmised that it was to be through one born in the same land that the great redemption was to be achieved?
Martin's;' no misnomer, we will be sworn, in that aggregation of debt and dissipation, when debtors were imprisoned with a very remote chance of redemption.
Before the eighty-five years allowed for the redemption of the capital invested in the gas have elapsed a good many things may certainly happen.
Sometimes the Sheep was sacrificed as an offering of thanksgiving, sometimes as an expiation for sin, and sometimes as a redemption for some more valuable animal.
The same word stands for both, for the kinsman had the right of redemption, and the redeemer was obliged to have a blood relationship.
Limbo, the place where the souls were waiting for the Redemption, was divided into different compartments, and encompassed by a thick foggy atmosphere.
In a moment, you behold immaculate white innocence, and lucky are you if you do not find that you yourself have sinned in some way beyond redemption.
The plan of Redemption is the very highest of these works, and it constitutes a gloriously perfect whole, gradually unfolding itself from age to age.
He entered upon a study of the subject, and thus far had found little to encourage the hope of the girl's redemption from her maladies.
It was the redemption of my soul from these vulgar taints: it was a sort of mortgage I held on the eternal truth and life.
Whatever therefore we may be in comparison with others, innocence can afford no plea for our acceptance, without annulling the great plan of our redemption.
The marriage took place, and, according to custom, the bride remained locked up at the vicarage until the husband could show his letter of redemption.
The forgiveness resulting from the great act of redemption is exactly what we want, a legal and judicial remission of a legal and judicial sentence.
It cannot be too clearly and forcibly insisted upon that no fall necessitates no redemption, for the proposition is self-evident, and thus incapable of contradiction.
I should know freedom in its true sense never again, if that night were suffered to pass without its redemption, if that belfry once were entered.
All his conversation tended to excite to greater love and thankfulness for the benefits of redemption; whilst his whole deportment breathed humility and love.
You do not forget that, while my vow was yet vibrating in your ear, you turned your lustrous eyes upon that glowing emblem of mortal redemption.
Faber there sought him; and on becoming acquainted with his wife, grew reconciled to the marriage, and formed hopes of his nephew's future redemption.
It was said it out-preached the preacher, out-prayed prayers, reformed the wayward, softened stony hearts, as it told the wonderful story of redemption, in sound.