bestowment

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The reader will call to mind that this Simon Magus is mentioned and condemned in the Acts of the Apostles, for offering to pay Peter for a bestowment of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

Verse 11 fills up the measure of the bestowment of grace on sinful men.

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

This transcendent pledge of love is the guarantee for the bestowment of every other needed blessing.

From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

It created, no doubt, considerable bitterness and jealousy in certain sections of society in England, as it was believed that the King was unduly partial to his own countrymen in the bestowment of his favours.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

What words could be so apt as these to express thankfulness for the preservation of life, and for the subsequent bestowment of the sweetest blessings which endear it to the pure and uncorrupted heart?

From Principle and Practice The Orphan Family by Martineau, Harriet