God's token

English Noun A sign from God. en 1694 A Golden Mine Opened, Or, The Glory of God's Rich Grace Benjamin Keach 42 Open not your Mouths, (as if he should say) shew no such sorrow as at other times, for God is Just (and he hath let out his deserved Wrath against these young Men) least you should seem to Justifie them, and shew a dislike of God's token of Divine dispeasure. en 1863 The office of the holy communion in the Book of common prayer Edward Meyrick Goulburn 33 Some have made a Scripture to themselves out of their own sanguine and presumptuous temperament, and have found in ecstasies and raptures of feeling God's token upon them for good. en 1868 November Church Register My Field 2 11 Except that near me, close beside my feet, Remained one handful of the golden wheat; God's token that for me Rich harvest yet should be. en 1876 Sermons for the Christian Year: Saints' Days John Keble 183 In these and other ways the holy Dove is God's token to us of the Almighty and Blessed Comforter; en 1880 The family prayer and sermon book - Volume 1 Charles John Vaughan 179 Miracle is God's call to attention: God's token and signal that He is about to speak. A rainbow, as a sign of God's promise not to destroy the earth. en 1884 Footsteps of truth Charles Russell Hurditch 283 Then there is "the bow in the cloud" as God's token of the covenant. en 1892 White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war Herman Melville 252 Straight in our wake came the tall main-mast of the English fighting-frigate, terminating, like a steepled cathedral, in the bannered cross of the religion of peace; and straight after her came the rainbow banner of France, sporting God's token that no more would he make war on the earth. en 2019 Poetry for God’s Glory Bernadette N. Fordyce It comes out not for an entertainment or show But stands as God's token to his children below, That whatever his word says it would be so, As the rainbow tells us the past is true. A sign for God to see. en 1846 Sermons for Sundays, festivals and fasts Alexander Watson 261 That way of thinking, joined with careful obedience, is God's token, surer, if we will make it so, every day and every hour, that the baptismal grace is not worn out, that Christ yet sees His mark in our foreheads. en 1858 Sonnets John Eagles lXX As the stern Angel of Death pass'd Egypt o'er, And smote not where God's token did appear; So spirits of ill, unseen, bow down before The lowly light of home, that shineth clear Through blackest night; en 1867 The Voice of truth; or, Strict baptists' magazine - Volumes 2-4 268 The blood of the passover was sprinkled on the lintels and the door-posts, and was God's token of their safety amidst surrounding dangers. " When I see the blood, I will pass over you." en 1910 Great epochs of sacred history, studies on the first twelve chapters of Genesis James Martin Gray 90 In other words, the rainbow, in its beauty and glory, is not man's token, but God's token; and man's security does not rest upon his seeing it, but upon God's seeing it. Circumcision. en 1818 February The Evangelical Guardian and Review The Identity of Baptism and Circumcision 2 10 442 for, wherever, or on whom, it was administered, it was God's token to all others, of his most gracious purpose, as well as to those who received it. en 1844 Infant Church-membership William Augustus Stearns 153 The token of God is upon him, let him now, by his own profession of faith, acknowledge it, as God's token, bringing him under the responsibilities and blessings of the covenant, and he will be received, unquestionably, as "an Israelite indeed." en 1989 From Christianity to Judaism: Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro Yosef Kaplan 335 By the influence that they brought to bear they convinced him that before making the journey he should be circumcised, since were he to perish at sea he would not qualify for salvation if he were not a Jew, and that it would be good to bear God's token on his person. en 2010 The Gospel According to Luke G. Campbell Morgan 39 No boy born, from the time of Abrqaham when the rite was instituted, all through the running centuries, was a member of God's nation unless or until he was circumcised. It was God's sign, God's token. en obsolete A cross. en 1637 The Devotion of the Cross Pedro Calderón de la Barca Woman, leave me, For I fly those arms that fold me, Having seen but now within them Some, I know not what, God's token; So much fear that Cross hath cause me Which thy breast reveal'd and show'd me; en 1906 The Rose Croix David Tod Gilliam 365 Rising, she placed herself on the lower step of the altar, and throwing open her bosom , said: “ Then by God's token, kneel.” en 1955 The Ministers Manual: A Study and Pulpit Guide - Volume 31 162 That sign is the Cross of Jesus Christ, God's token. A plague spot en 2002 Shakespeare Survey - Volume 50 Stanley Wells 25 The emphasis in Lodge's definition is on the unambiguous hermeneutic certainty –'a sure and unfeigned judgement ' – of the plague symptom, popularly known as God's token because, being a dubious gift from above, it leaves no room either for doubt or for remedy. en 2015 Bodysnatchers to Livesavers Tara Womersley Cramps, convulsion of limbs, imperfection of speech and stinking breath, colic, swelling of the body as in dropsy, visage of divers colours, God's token [red spots] quickly discovered and covering. Further reading