commination

How To Use commination In A Sentence

• And he shows that all those comminations and threats which we read in the Scriptures of the New Testament in no way belong to the nature of the Gospel properly so called, but are the confirmation of the law.
• It was his job to save them and not to shake his head and thunder comminations.
• There is in this commination an appearance of severity beyond the rule established, Exod. xx. The Sermons of John Owen
• At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication. Old Mortality
• It is therefore a very necessary and important point, to inquire whether there be really any such thing, as a sanction of natural laws, that is, whether they are accompanied with comminations and promises, punishments and rewards.
• The text begins with the morning prayer and ends with a commination.
• At such extraordinary times, princes, by their coactive temporal power, ought to procure and cause a reformation of abuses, and the avoiding of misorders in the church, though with the discontent of the clergy, for which end and purpose they may not only enjoin and command the profession of that faith, and the practice of that religion which God's word appointeth, but also prescribe such an order and policy in the circumstances of divine worship as they in their judgment of Christian discretion, observing and following the rules of the word, shall judge and try to be convenient for the present time and case, and all this under the commination of such temporal losses, pains, or punishments as they shall deprehend to be reasonable. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• The words may be considered either as a prediction depending on God's prescience of what will be; or a commination from his just judgment of what shall be. The Sermons of John Owen
• He issued a commination, condemning us all to the deepest pit of hell. Tempted by Your Touch
• An agreement between God and Man, about the way of obtaining consummate happiness, including a commination of eternal destruction, with which the contemner of the happiness, offered in that way, is to be punished.