preceptive
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But, moreover, all such providential magistrates are also preceptive.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
That the preceptive will of God is to be our only rule of duty, few Christians deny.
From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge
In every course of studies, all the practical and preceptive parts of the Gospel should be sacredly inculcated, and all dogmatical theology and sectarianism sacredly excluded.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew
Hence it must be concluded, either that the preceptive will of God in the scriptures is imperfect, or the laws therein repealable by providence; or then that providence cannot be the rule of human actions.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
But love is a potent and untameable passion, disdaining the narrow limitations of preceptive constancy.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
