Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obduracy; defiant impenitence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
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- noun obsolete A
hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Scripture denotes rather obduration against God than against men.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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That there is a judicial obduration upon the people whom they are determined against, accompanying them; that no calls to repentance or reformation shall be complied withal so as to divert them.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The hardening here mentioned is to the utmost, -- utter obduration; sin tends to it, and every distemper and lust will make at least some progress towards it.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967
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(I speak not now of it as it may have a place and bear a part in judiciary obduration.)
Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967
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By this means is the heart prepared for a farther obduration in sin, by the confirmation of native obstinacy.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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By “striking on the quicksands of lust, and dashing upon rocks of sensuality, impenitency, and obduration,” you bare in other places sufficiently explained yourself to intend their falling under the power of sin.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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“It is,” saith Mr Goodwin, “that God will so preserve believers that none of them shall make shipwreck of their faith, upon what quicksands of lust and sensuality soever they shall strike, against what rock of obduration and impenitency soever they dash.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Do not you know that we maintain that the grace faithfully engaged to be bestowed on them is given them to this end, to preserve them from the power of sin, from obduration and impenitency, and shall certainly be effectual for that purpose?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Did ever any say that God preserveth men in believing under obduration and impenitency? — that is, under unbelief; for no men can be obdurately impenitent but unbelievers.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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By withholding the efficacy of the means which they enjoy for their conviction and repentance, yea, and giving them an efficacy unto their obduration, Isa. vi.
A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace 1616-1683 1965
qms commented on the word obduration
Pigheadedness’ better relation
Is stubbornness raised up a station,
But reason defied
With obstinate pride
We dignify as obduration.
November 27, 2017