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In a source approbated by the Catholic Church Almighty God is quoted as saying: "We wish to concede nothing to man that does not pass throught her hands."

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Licensing Lambard, because the select Men had refused to approbate him, because he never was approbated by the select men, to keep a Tavern in the House he now lives in, because there are already 3 and his would make 4 Taverns besides Retailers, within 3/4 of a Mile, and because he obtained an a License from that

John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

But the keeping of gambling houses is, in some cases, approbated by human law.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

"But," says one, "the traffic in ardent spirit is a lawful business; it is approbated by law, and is therefore right."

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

Egypt, five hundred years afterward, he publicly approbated the same relation, by permitting every slave they had bought with their money to eat the Passover, while he refused the same privilege to their _hired servants_.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

The keeping of brothels is, in some cases, approbated by law.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

The decision which it was understood the Government had made, not to transfer the care of the Indians to the War Department, was warmly approbated.

The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 2, February, 1891 Various

"A creed or confession of faith is an ecclesiastical document -- the mind and will of some synod or council possessing authority -- as a term of communion by which persons and opinions are to be tested, approbated or reprobated."

The Last Reformation 1913

In 1826, after three years 'study, he was “approbated to preach” by the Middlesex Association of Ministers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

Soon discovering that he was endowed with ministerial gifts, the church approbated the exercising of them, and he began to preach upon the neighboring plantations along the Savannah River with much success, and sometimes he preached in the evenings of Lord's Day to the church (white) to which be belonged.

The First Colored Baptist Church in North America Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors. James Meriles 1888