preceptively

Again, as no one form of government is prescribed, so neither has God determined preceptively who are to exercise civil power.

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

Their national fortresses, in which they sought security in war, were built on high and inaccessible rocks. spake to me -- either preceptively, giving the following counsels respecting the character of an upright ruler in Israel, or prophetically, concerning David and his royal dynasty, and the great

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

But how are principles to be inculcated except preceptively?

Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments. 1864

And as these are preceptively propounded, so they were as practically followed by them that were eminently godly in the primitive church.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Testament respecting the sin of slavery, is as follows: "If this form of wrong had been singled out from all the others, and had alone been treated preceptively, the whole system would have been vitiated.

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