superstruction

A foundation only will not make a house, -- there must also be materials for a superstruction.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Materials for a superstruction; thirdly, An orderly framing of both into a useful building; -- and all these concur to the church of

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Wherefore, knowledge and wisdom in things of this nature are distributed promiscuously among all sorts of persons, according to the foundation of their natural abilities, and a superstruction thereon in their diligent exercise, without any peculiar application to God for especial grace or assistance, reserving still a liberty unto the sovereignty of divine Providence in the disposal of all men and their concerns.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Whilst faith lives in a due apprehension of the wisdom of God in this, and the whole superstruction of this way, on this foundation it is safe.

Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965

One other point is of importance to be attended to as a _fundamental_ one, and indeed as one of superstruction too.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

But if we build upon "the sands" of fame or self-aggrandizement, and, like the towering oak, lift our insignificant heads in proud defiance of the coming storm, we may expect that our superstruction will fall!

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

The edification of this house is gradually to be perfected more and more till the coming of Christ, by laying the foundation of Christianity, in bringing men still unto Christ, and carrying on the superstruction in perfecting them in Christ in all spiritual growth, till at last the top-stone be laid on, the Church completed, and translated _to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens_.

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

A rotten foundation, and a tottering superstruction, which tumbles down upon the builders 'own heads: for,

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

It is, indeed, extremely difficult, owing to the superstruction of sectarian belief, to get down to the foundation-religion of the epic.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

When you have such an _all this_, (and such you have) as is here concentrated in the text, to lay into, or for the foundation of a covenant, the superstruction is _æternitati sacrum_, and must stand for ever.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876