How To Use Dispensation In A Sentence

They were wed by special dispensation at St Mary's Church in Shrewton on Monday afternoon in a ceremony performed by Royal Yeomanry padre Simon Bloxam-Rose.
So that even in their case the characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation was theopneustic, rather than theologic. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Selling fireworks should be prohibited other than for the few days immediately before November 5, unless the authorities give special dispensation for other events.
Unless Celtic are given special dispensation to register the midfielder for the New Year's Day game against Hearts at Tynecastle, Keane will not be eligible until the Scottish Cup tie away to Clyde the following weekend.
Physicians must learn to engage in gentle but direct truth-telling in the dispensation of their duty to patients who depend on them for accurate yet compassionate descriptions of their condition.

Mr. Larsen makes the mistake of equating millennialism with dispensationalism, when the latter is actually a particular type of the former.
The sport's ruling body gave him dispensation to compete in national competitions.
This new dispensation is likely to strike many of us as chaotic -- Grossman is being disingenuous when he writes that "None of this is good or bad," since he surely knows most of his readers judge it to be bad indeed -- especially those of us who want some of those "conventional criteria for literary value" to survive. Principles of Literary Criticism
Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
Fundamentalists reject a larger portion of secular society, maintain strong commitments to strict literalism, premillennial dispensationalism, and moral traditionalism.
We should now very briefly note that there is a fourth context in which Paul mentions the law, that of direct comparison between the dispensation of law and the dispensation of faith in Christ.
What eminent gifts are poured out in the days wherein we live! what light is bestowed! what pains in preaching! how is the dispensation of the word multiplied! The Sermons of John Owen
Thus, dispensational theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers at this point in history.
To have convicted Crosfeild for singing a regicidal song would have been unjust and even preposterous, so that at least legally there has to be some kind of aesthetic dispensation, aesthetic free space for strong expressions.
In practice, what counted as an emergency was left up to local officials of the TGWU to determine, and practice across the country varied according to the views of the local shop stewards who established 'Dispensation committees' to decide. 'Life on Mars' for real
He believed that natural selection - or as in his own case, divine dispensation - would provide, and it seldom did.
Moreover, these dispensations are supposed to be given motu proprio and with certain knowledge, from which it follows that they are not vitiated by obreption or by subreption. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
His eyes glisten with unshed tears as he reaches the threshold of his release, desperate to rid himself of the unwanted pleasure but requiring Kenneth's dispensation to do so.
Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
She needs a special dispensation to marry her cousin.
The following day, Deb got special dispensation from the principal and took Gunner to school with her. Shell-Shocked Dog of War Finds a Home With the Family of a Fallen Hero
She needs a special dispensation to marry her cousin.
In the Christian dispensation the neighbour is not only one of the true faith, but the schismatic , the outcast, and the pagan.
As Tiberius was immediately adopted by Augustus, Germanicus became a member of the Julian gens in the direct line of succession; and his career was accelerated by special dispensations.
The point of the near-constant dispensation of lies, half-truths and irrelevancies is to create an atmosphere in which it becomes almost impossible to distinguish honesty from deception, fact from fantasy.
While most African Americans cringe when a white person utters the so-called N-word, many give black entertainers like Rock a special dispensation to use it.
The UKCC has usefully categorized four stages in the therapeutic use of medicines: prescription, dispensation, administration, and patient acceptance.
In applications for dispensations mention of only two out of the many marriages is sufficient, and that whether they are all real or interpretative or mixed bigamies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
In the myth of the Orpheus / Eurydice saga, Orpheus was given a dispensation by Pluto to return his wife from the underworld (she had been bitten by a poisonous serpent and died).
This new dispensation in turn required the expansion of the political nation to create a legitimate match of taxation and representation.
So within these four parameters, one needs to crystallize the political dispensation that one would like to have in Afghanistan.
Also, the pope might claim the settlement of certain cases, the dispensations and the final decisions.
Clubs can apply for temporary dispensation of the League's rules in terms of having a 6,000 capacity or having 2,000 covered seats, as long as the club could guarantee the criteria would be met in the near future.
Hence, a stewardship is a dispensation.
Check their Web sites for more detailed information before you sign up for anything requiring shots or special dispensation from the Azerbaijani embassy.
First of all I have to seek dispensation for compliance with rule 41.2.
Rudyard Kipling hailed the ‘Imperial Fire of Rome’ as a divine dispensation that had fallen ‘on us, thy son.’
Ever since the present dispensation took over, ministers concerned have been trying to drive home the fact at every given opportunity that the elections due to the said institutions would be held as soon as possible.
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
In fact criticism is a necessary ingredient of any democratic dispensation as it helps to keep those in positions of authority in check.
Nothing could be more calculated to disaffect him from the new dispensation and thus any such plan can only prove to be short-sighted in the extreme. Archive 2007-10-21
In some den of an apartment I will no doubt find the cockroach of enlightenment, a supralapsarian dispensationalist with whom I will share a love of Yeats and Brahms, and we will debate in sonorous and unending Spanish sentences of desultory, copious punctuation. Changes and Vicissitudes of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
By parliamentary dispensation, he was buried in the family vault in Wimborne Minister.
An almost impossibly rich work, it explicates a host of thorny theological, philosophical, and epistemological controversies and positions (Marsden, for instance, insightfully draws the connection between, on the one hand, the intellectual appeal of dispensational premillennialism and the opposition to Darwinism and, on the other, the peculiarly American “non-developmental” understanding of history). Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism
There is, indeed, no gracious influence from above, no illapse of light, life, love, or grace upon our hearts, but proceedeth in such a dispensation. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
The Bible teaches that this is the age or dispensation of the Spirit.
Prior to independence and before the partial democratic dispensation of the British the country had been ruled by absolute monarchy, stretched for centuries.
City had to secure special dispensation from the Football League to sign Whitehead on a seven-day loan from Reading after on-loan Sunderland goalkeeper Michael Ingham picked up a shoulder injury
Literal readings of the Bible predispose fundamentalists to adopt a theology that stresses premillennial dispensationalism, which means they believe in the Second Coming of Jesus as prophesied in the Bible.
Legally, a dispensation could be made that would enable you to live on in the Porter house.
Superseding the offerings made in the old dispensation, he offers himself as ‘the full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.’
Under the neo-liberal dispensation, then, what many people seem to yearn for is a world in which they are treated not as consumers or as dispensable cogs in an indifferent machine but as citizens and as human beings.
The mistake committed was to audit books in terms of the old dispensation where cheque books were used for payments.
Her marriage, crafted with diplomatic panache and a dispensation from the pope, had a rocky start, but soon the couple fell in love. Three books on British royals
The four most popular views are dispensational premillennialism, historical premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
Zoser occasionally stayed late to help with the charity dispensation.
Yea, such is the power of deceivable lusts, that many will admire at the blindness of others in former generations who considered not the works of God (as the Jews in ` the wilderness), when themselves are under actual contempt of no less glorious dispensations; like the Pharisees, who bewailed the folly of their fathers in persecuting the prophets, when themselves were endeavouring to kill the Son of God, Matt. xxiii. The Sermons of John Owen
He added that the people are feeling insecure during the rule of present dispensation.
We do not flourish in fruitfulness, in savouriness, and profitableness, answerable to what the dispensations of God have been towards us; for the dew of God hath been upon us from time to time. The Sermons of John Owen
In discussing the notion St. Thomas himself confines himself to the example of the dispensation of honours. Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two
Unless dialogue is allowed to be the hallmark, very little succeeds especially in political dispensations.
Little children prefer red sugar-plums to white, and always think it the best "content" which is drunk from a painted cup; but when the dispensation of content and sugar-plums has yielded to maturer age, the man takes his coffee and his cracknel without observing the pattern of the pottery. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
After 40 years of psephology, swingometers and tactical voting, the electorate has over the past four or five general elections shown that it has at last worked out how to impose its will on the politicians, even, as last year, in a quite sophisticated way, under the current flawed dispensation. Letters: Playing the game to put an end to tactical voting
The sport's ruling body gave him dispensation to compete in national competitions.
One could argue that making jokes about the incident trivializes it, but once the 11 o'clock news is over, virtually everything is fair game for satirists and gagsters, and the Emmy special gets a special dispensation where topical jokes are concerned.
He remembers that it was I who delivered the dispensation allowing him to marry his first cousin, Isabella of Castile. THE FAMILY
She needed a special dispensation to remarry.
The pope grants dispensations to all who are unable to go in person to the stations, such as cloistered religious, prisoners, the sick, etc., who are free to visit their own church and say the prayers prescribed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Dispensationalists differ as to the number and extent of these dispensations.
As in other ordinations from other faiths, we had to have dispensation from the Pope for the ordination.
These days, although they're protected by the EU directive on the conservation of wild birds, a quota of 2,000 baby gannets can be harvested annually, by special dispensation of the Scottish executive.
Henry considered it seriously enough to get a papal bull giving him dispensation to bring the Irish into the Catholic fold.
Lawyers will ask courts for dispensation for their athletes/clients who suffer from hangovers, hangnails, imperfectly ground prescription glasses, bad cholesterol.
‘Death,’ wrote Washington, ‘was leveling my companions on every side of me; but, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected.’
Darby is credited with bringing premillennial dispensationalism to the United States.
There were other charges brought against Cocceius, however, one of which was his distinction between +aphesis hamartiôn+ and +paresis hamartiôn+, by which he held that the former was a complete pardon, but the latter incomplete, and only in force under the old dispensation. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
The name Gauteng is a product of our new political dispensation and the commitment of the country to reclaim itself from forces which arrested its development and self worth for a very long time. ANC Daily News Briefing
However, I ask this question: why did the church demand Mrs Shepherd do the full course and not give her dispensation for her years of training and study as a Reader in the Church of England, as well as her commitment and service?
The halacha enjoins respecting the minhag hamakom, specifically in order to maintain peace—and this with respect to totally normative practices, which women wearing a tallis, and having a “minyan” are surely not even if special dispensation can be found for doing these things privately. Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the BÃ¡bÃ Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
Bush indicated that the dispensation of the federal surplus for tax cuts is a top priority, and much of the nation seems to agree with him, despite his minority status.
That promise, “They shall be all taught of God,” inwraps in itself the whole mystery of grace, as to its actual dispensation unto us, so far as we may be made real possessors of it. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Vain jangling" (1Ti 1: 6, 7) of would-be "teachers of the law." godly edifying -- The oldest manuscripts read, "the dispensation of God," the Gospel dispensation of God towards man (1Co 9: 17), "which is (has its element) in faith. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Industries now have to lobby and politicise to get dispensation.
She applied to the College for dispensation from the requirement to re-sit her failed assessments, on the grounds that she had been involved in a number of car accidents, and she was suffering financial hardship.
That which, in the next place, we are to speak unto is, "The equity of this divine constitution, -- that, in the ordinary way of God's rule and dispensation of his providence, repentance and reformation shall turn away impendent judgments, and procure unto a people a blessed deliverance; and nothing else shall do it:" "Except ye repent, ye shall perish. The Sermons of John Owen
The lusts of men do commonly, under such dispensations, fearfully and desperately tumultuate, to the disturbance of the most settled and weighed spirits. The Sermons of John Owen
She also argues for a reappraisal of the colonial past, and a transformation of the political dispensation in the future.
Under the old dispensation it was said, 'Greater love hath no man than this;' is it not possible now that the greatest love is that which lays down its life untransmitted? The Master-Knot of Human Fate
Federico also fasted according to all vigils ordered by the Church, without exception, even when for reasons of health he had received special dispensation from the pope. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
`First, I'm going to the church on Saturday with Jennifer to talk to the guy there about picking up my dispensation. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
Third, the canon closed with the death of the apostles, has remained closed for over 1600 years, and Scripture gives us no reason to expect new revelation or any new dispensation.
Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
The Justice Department fought that order by requesting more time to appeal the decision, and special dispensation for its continuing interrogation of Mr. Padilla.
It was the inevitable tendency of Mormonism, like every other religious delusion, from the advent of John of Leyden to that of the Spiritualists, to disturb the natural relation of the sexes under the Christian dispensation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
She needs a special dispensation to marry her cousin.
In principle, one can be a Protestant fundamentalist without being a premillennial dispensationalist.
It should be clear that this is a very different kind of millennialism than the dispensationalist one.
The $100,000 short film Sanctuary has been seeking a dispensation from the MEAA since January to allow professional actors to participate in the production. Law and science
She, too, having made her resolve under former Buddhas, and heaping up good in this rebirth and that, was born under this Buddha-dispensation in a poor family at Sāvatthī, and was married to a rush-plaiter. Psalms of the Sisters
Cujus dispensationis caussa, non in gentis unius prae alia dignitate, aut meliore luminis naturae usu, sed in liberrimo beneplacito, et gratuita dilectione Dei: [10276] 1 The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Compare Ex 24: 8 (covenant), which Christ quotes, though it is probable He included in a sense "testament" also under the Greek word diathece (comprehending both meanings, "covenant" and "testament"), as this designation strictly and properly applies to the new dispensation, and is rightly applicable to the old also, not in itself, but when viewed as typifying the new, which is properly a testament. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In process of time, when the Adamite religion demanded a restoration and a supplement, its pristine virtue was revived, restored and further developed by the books communicated to Abraham, whose dispensation thus takes the place of the Hebrew Noah and his Noachidæ. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Cordial relations will not be resumed until the a a fair dispensation is re-established. Archive 2007-10-14
He explained that the Government has a national playing fields strategy that in short means schools or local authorities cannot sell any playing fields without getting special dispensation.
A further reason is that the Church claims jurisdiction over such mixed marriages, institutes diriment impediments to them, and grants dispensations. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Near at hand, a wild-eyed religionary was trying to persuade a limited and drifting audience that a special dispensation had enabled him to foretell exactly the date of the Second Coming of Christ. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
Ordained as a priest, he received papal dispensation to pursue a career as an itinerant scholar and teacher, attaching himself to elite households and powerful printing firms throughout Europe.
Cujus dispensationis caussa, non in gentis unius prae alia dignitate, aut meliore luminis naturae usu, sed in liberrimo beneplacito, et gratuita dilectione Dei est collocanda. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
That's the normal life of folks at Catholic Answers, not the endless dispensation of pat answers.
But before any one settles down into a conclusion that this passage warrants the use of wine and ardent spirits, in our age and country, let him consider that there may have been, as there doubtless were, peculiar reasons, under the Levitical dispensation, for permitting the Jews to partake of what their soul desired _before the Lord_, which would not apply to mankind generally; as was the case in respect to several other things. Select Temperance Tracts
Throughout all dispensations, these have been the unchanging requirements for living in a covenant relationship with God.
The political dispensation to follow will be either stable or colonial, but not both.
This is both a form of loopholism as well as an illustration of what I call the plea for special dispensation. Anthony Watts at UCAR « Climate Audit
England know this day, that we lie unthankfully under as full a dispensation of mercy and grace as ever nation in the world enjoyed, and that without a lively acknowledgment thereof, with our own unworthiness of it, we shall one day know what it is (being taught with briers and thorns) to undervalue the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus. The Sermons of John Owen
Legal injustice is not uncommon in the court of justice, and miscarriage of justice has retarded the dispensation of true justice. Dr T.P.Chia
Then that race whose son carried the Savior's Cross, while the Semitic and Japhetic races united to crucify Him, will wear the Dispensational Crown; being also the race, which in the person of the Ethiopian eunuch, furnished the first convert of pure Gentile blood (through a Jewish proselyte) and who hastened to stretch out his hand to God, when Philip drew near to him; and even to ask himself for Christian Baptism. Men of Maryland
Sharon became quite passionate in her antagonism to single mothers who require special dispensation in order to be able to balance the demands of their children with those of work.
I was fairly certain the priest had to grant the person a dispensation or not to release them from their obligation.
Perhaps disloyalty to an existing dispensation that has endowed one with one's privileges does look like radical chic.
British policy had developed in the early 1970s as a twin track of levying war and constructing a political dispensation.
The Ministry of Food even gave the railway special dispensation to operate its restaurant car without the requirement for food stamps.
Already the President has cut back on his motorcade; so too has the Prime Minister; and this should just be the start of what should be a far more modest dispensation which is in keeping with the country's coffers.
* It is from the Dataria that bulls, rescripts, letters of appointment to benefices, and dispensations of marriage, are issued, after the affixture of the date and formula The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
Mr. Gibbings cautioned, however, that media associations and territories that remained disorganized in the new dispensation would be hard pressed to benefit from the free movement of labour.
In fact, my biggest concern with dispensationalism is its misuse of Scripture in the service of seriously flawed forms of Christology and ecclesiology.
For all that, his talent for logical argument, the dispensation of balanced advice and an understanding of politics superseded his talent for music, and he opted for a career in diplomacy, with music as an important sideline.
US actions are forging a new legal dispensation in which their overarching global authority would be acknowledged.
When combined with the conspicuous deployment of troops and liberal dispensation of patronage to the other princes and Court grandees it was enough to ensure victory.
The negotiations for a new dispensation in South Africa that began in 1990 effectively brought an end to South Africa's policy of regional destabilization.
Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive.
As where a law exacteth a pecuniary mulct of them that take the name of God in vain, the payment of the mulct is not the price of a dispensation to swear, but the punishment of the transgression of a law indispensable. Leviathan
The dispensation of the award for overtly political purposes is by no means unprecedented.
The new dispensation distributed patronage through hierarchical relationships and emphasized iniquitous patron-client alliances over horizontal affinity based on shared heritage and culture.
It looks as if the present dispensation has a perennial dual policy while dealing with hotheads of one community and thugs of its own ilk.
The loss of such a man, in such a crisis; of a man who possessed so large and growing a share of the public confidence, and whose administration has recently borrowed new lustre from the crowning achievements of our armies; of a ruler whom victory was inspiring with the wise and paternal magnanimity which sought to make the conciliation as cordial as the strife has been deadly: the loss of such a President, at such a conjuncture, is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep, sincere, and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven. The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work
_human_ law, under the _Christian Dispensation_, in the _nineteenth century we_ are commanded to do, what _God_ more than _three thousand_ years ago, under the _Mosaic Dispensation, positively commanded_ the An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
To get diamonds for this purpose from conflict zones will require special dispensation from organizations such as the United Nations, they say.
Nor had I denied the divine appointment of baptism, but only declared my belief that _water baptism_, though a becoming rite under the Christian dispensation, was the baptism of John, and absolutely binding only under his intermediate dispensation. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
The writer is dispensational and premillennial in outlook, and seems to know little of Reformed writers or their thinking.
To this effect, it is imperative that Zambia takes stock of its investment in health infrastructure before originating grandiose plans on medical dispensation.
On this fact hypothesis I remark that, if the shipwrecked foreigners were educated men, or only possessed of such Scriptural knowledge as was then imparted to the commonality of laymen, it is morally impossible to conceive that a Spaniard of the sixteenth century should confine his instruction to some of the leading events of the Old Testament, and be totally silent upon the Christian dispensation, and the cruciolatry, mariolatry, and hagiolatry of that day. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
Twenty-seven Everything I'd disregarded now became clear, every dispensation now went. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
But yesterday he said it was ‘a non-starter’ to apply to the prison authorities for special dispensation.
There is also an eirenic critique of dispensational and reconstructionist alternatives to covenant theology.
Divine dispensation determined to honor her in this station so that, having scorned the king's servant, she came to be coupled with the king himself and bring forth royal children.
There has to be special dispensation for goalkeepers and the SFA have got to argue our case with Fifa.
This is not an exception, all the prisons in the country has more remand prisoners than convict prisoners because of the delay in dispensation of justice.
The two most solemn facts of our being are here connected with the two most gracious truths of our dispensation, our death and judgment answering in parallelism to Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Rules on taxation now include dispensation for charitable bodies or individuals engaged in charity.
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Christian fasting and abstinence did not, of course, spring from a ritual distinction between clean and unclean meats, but it was just as deeply embedded in theological conviction as the older dispensation.
Note, When we are most in the dark concerning the meaning of God's dispensations we must still resolve to keep up right thoughts of God, and must be confident of this, that he never did, nor ever will do, the least wrong to any of his creatures; even when his judgments are unsearchable as a great deep, and altogether unaccountable, yet his righteousness is as conspicuous and immovable as the great mountains, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Dans un document rendu public mardi, il affirme que la question ne se pose pas en termes de "pour ou contre l'euthanasie", mais en termes de dispensation des "soins appropriés en fin de vie". The English Canadian MSM got it wrong re: Quebec College of Physicians and Euthanasia
Being associated with the old world of fixed horizons and immutable laws, faith is treated as something incompatible with the new dispensation of limitless possibility and individual supremacy.
Around the time the first wave of postmillennialism was gaining steam, an Irish minister named John Nelson Darby came up with a new theory called dispensational premillennialism. Rapture Ready!
pious opinion;" there were invocation of saints and worship of images, prayers for the dead, and holy water; but dispensations and indulgences were uninvented, the Inquisition was unknown, numbers of the clergy were married men, and that organ of tyranny and sin, termed auricular confession, had not yet been set up to grind the consciences and torment the hearts of those who sought to please God according to the light they enjoyed. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
In discussing the notion St. Thomas himself confines himself to the example of the dispensation of honours. Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two
Strongly tied to biblical inerrancy was dispensational premillennialism, which predicted the imminent return of Jesus Christ to earth.
If I understand Dispensational theology (and that may not even be possible, given the inherent contradictions and outright nonsense with which such premillennial claptrap is imbued), the coming of the "anti-Christ" should be a good thing, since it presages The Rapture, wherein the Righteous are bodily ascended into heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens and unbelievers to live in peace, once and for all. Discourse.net: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
And this inwraps the third general rule of our communion with the Holy Ghost: — in the dispensation of the word of the gospel, the authority, wisdom, and goodness of the Holy Ghost, in furnishing men with gifts for that end and purpose, and his presence with them, as to the virtue thereof, is to be eyed, and subjection given unto it on that account. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
A restive population is demanding the birth of some new dispensation to take charge and solve our problems.
As professionals, pharmacists should offer information on use and dispensation of medication, not their particular religious convictions.
In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers.
For this, and in general for the information which should accompany the petition, in order that a dispensation be valid, see below apropos of obreption and subreption in rescripts of dispensation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Under the new dispensation of the modern welfare state, with the big job-grinder going round and round, this does not happen.
However, yesterday Kennet's standards committee granted dispensation to four of the five parish councillors who declared an interest, which means they can now debate and vote on the planning application.
[256] Daniel calls it, a not giving of the kingdom to another people, Dan.ii. 44; -- not that oecumenical kingdom which he hath with his Father, as king of nations; but that oeconomical kingdom which he hath by dispensation from his Father, as king of saints. The Sermons of John Owen
Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
Blacks actually believed they would get some special dispensation from a black president. Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama
The temples were the preserve of classical arts till the arrival of Colonists whose dispensation, by definition, changed the rules of patronage.
Not surprisingly, on the JIRA, where a lot of the politics of Second Life is playing out now, a resident named Boy Lane, who is one of the loudmouths on the Concierge List often heckling me nastily, mounts a proposal demanding that the term "ladyboy" be removed from the list of "adult" words that have to be filtered out of the search list under the new dispensation. Second Thoughts
PS - I know its old news but in today ` s Guardian Geoffrey Wheatcroft rehearses the extent to which the current electoral dispensation is stacked against the Conservative Party. Millipede Leads High Tax Labour Left In Attack On Brown
Last week by one of those strange political dispensations we accept from Cabinet overlords, he granted another million euro plus grant to his native constituency.
The majority are already resigned to the dispensations of Providence.
'Come, then, by special dispensation, we will allow him a few cracknels; but nothing less homely.' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
A young man in a bizarre and colorful outfit, with a makeshift bandolier in which plastic cups were tucked for rapid dispensation of his wares, observed my fascination and offered me a drink.
‘Time is money’ became on of the key slogans of capitalist ideology, and the timekeeper was the most significant of the new types of official introduced by the capitalist dispensation. THE TYRANNY OF THE CLOCK- George Woodcock
There was a largely unpublicised dispensation, the deadline of which ended last Monday, whereby areas of crop failure could be regarded as set-aside, provided MAFF was notified.
Couldn't you talk to the priest and bring my dispensation home for me? ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
As the controversies over dispensation of the western territories grew unavoidable, so the Jacksonian political alignments crumbled.
As political correctness irons out the parenthesis of prejudice, there will always be a special, sour dispensation for Bismark's baby; hating the Hun is perhaps the only thing that truly emulsifies the rest of us.
Providence itself to a kind of nonplus, to attemper any dispensation of it to an universal acceptance; any more than that glorious fountain of light, the sun, can shine upon all the corners of the earth at once. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
By many, the Christian dispensation is supposed to be, in a great degree, favourable to a state of bachelorism, because the Apostle, Paul, has recommended it as preferable; but we think the recommendation was given for the following reason: (i.e.) every one in the early ages of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832
Therefore, instead of a final dispensation, the story of a monster at the limit of the tellable concludes irresolutely, even incoherently.
After the Civil War, a new kind of premillennialism, ‘dispensationalism, ‘gained popularity.’
To free us from this miscarriage also, this unanswerableness unto the mind of God in his present dispensation, we may consider, -- The Sermons of John Owen
As the controversies over dispensation of the western territories grew unavoidable, so the Jacksonian political alignments crumbled.
Although John cancelled his predecessors' grants, neither he nor subsequent popes abstained from issuing new dispensations to pluralists.
Those who can will be given permanent residency under existing rules; others will be given special dispensation.

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