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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel in which metals are refined.
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Examples
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It is your mercy to be in Zion's fining-pot rather than in the consuming furnace.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The workmen that God calls out in the world are not to make the fining-pot, but men that work in mortar and brick, fit to build a great furnace.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The "fire" there is the fire of a fining-pot; the "furnace" is a burning furnace.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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No; it is God's fining-pot, his way to purify: and there is no other way to make an eternal separation between sin and the body but by consuming of it in the grave.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Nor you nor I can tell what to say unto the deadness and slowness of all sorts of professors, -- of me, and you, and of all sorts of professors, -- to come to such a reformation as may be preventive of a furnace; nay, to come to such a reformation as may give us faith to plead for an interest in the fining-pot and not in the furnace.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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I am afraid the cleansing of the churches is beyond the fining-pot; however, here in my text they are put into the same furnace.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth.
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As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision
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