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To complete this fear, it is required that a man have such an apprehension of the coming of hell and wrath upon him as that he be not relieved against it by any interposal of promise, or aught else, from God, that he should be preserved in the way and path whereby he shall assuredly find deliverance from that which he fears.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Hath he said he will not drown it, notwithstanding any interposal of sin, wickedness, or rebellion whatsoever?

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

The rancho he could not see -- for the covering interposal columns of the cacti -- but through the openings along their tops a black line was visible that had an unnatural look, and a strange film of smoke hung over the azotea!

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

But certainly it is a very rare thing, and seldom found, to see a man of so clear a breast, so sincere a design, as to have waded through such prosecutions without any interposal of vindictive thoughts.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

God delivers men by means, when means are to be had, and by the interposal of their own endeavours: and therefore he that flies to the church when he should be in the field, and takes his prayer-book in his hand when he should take his sword, tempts God, and loses himself; and, according to a due estimate of things, becomes a murderer, by so patiently suffering another to be so.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

Which when they are so great and arduous, that they seem even to call out for help from Heaven, and to exceed all possibility of redress but by the interposal of a miracle, why then miracles come in season, and shall be shewn, as being the rarities and reserves of

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

So many intricacies, so many labyrinths, are there in them, that the succours of reason fail, the very force and spirit of it being lost in an actual intention scattered upon several clashing objects at once; in which case, the interposal of a friend is like the supply of a fresh party to a besieged yielding city.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

And this is not to be understood barely of oppression managed by open and downright defiance; but by any other sinister way whatsoever, as the overbearing another's right by the interest and interposal of great persons, by vexatious suits and violence cloaked with the formalities of a court and the name of law.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823