bestowment

Example Sentences

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If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

Baptism in infants, is the pledge of the bestowment of those blessings purchased by Christ for all.

From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon)

She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world’s bestowment.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

In substance or anticipation, this one bestowment contains all good things of God.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.