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  • And I am assured, also, that the truth proposed in it inwraps the whole ground of any just expectation of the continuance of the presence of God amongst us, and his acceptation of our endeavours about the allotment and just disposal of our civil affairs.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • The covenant of grace, then, as it inwraps the unchangeable love and favour of God towards those who are taken into the bond thereof, is that which lieth under our present consideration.

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

  • A comfortable persuasion of our acceptation with God in Christ is the bottom of this peace; it inwraps deliverance from eternal wrath, hatred, curse, condemnation, — all sweetly affecting the soul and conscience.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • And this inwraps the third general rule of our communion with the Holy Ghost: — in the dispensation of the word of the gospel, the authority, wisdom, and goodness of the Holy Ghost, in furnishing men with gifts for that end and purpose, and his presence with them, as to the virtue thereof, is to be eyed, and subjection given unto it on that account.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • That promise, “They shall be all taught of God,” inwraps in itself the whole mystery of grace, as to its actual dispensation unto us, so far as we may be made real possessors of it.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • Then, remembering how my songs seemed to have called her from the marble, piercing through the pearly shroud of alabaster -- "Why," thought I, "should not my voice reach her now, through the ebon night that inwraps her."

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

  • The human mind bewildered is ever looking for crevices in the great mystery that inwraps the visible universe, and ever hoping that some struggling beam from beyond may point to the best path.

    The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869

  • Thou wilt know every shade of my suffering; thou wilt care for me with thy perfect fatherhood; for that makes my sonship, and inwraps and infolds it.

    Unspoken Sermons Series One 1824-1905 1867

  • Thou wilt know every shade of my suffering; thou wilt care for me with thy perfect fatherhood; for that makes my sonship, and inwraps and infolds it.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

  • Every thing that we can use and enjoy in it, are all made things, and made by him, and this world that contains and inwraps them all, itself a made thing, and we are made things; why are we not more frequently doing him homage?

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

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