bestowment
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‘Holy in Christ:’ our holiness is a Divine bestowment, held for us, communicated to us, working mightily in us because we are in Him.
From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray
God hath wise reasons for the bestowment of gifts, and, in someway, gets glory to himself thereby.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
Will they be worthy to tread the earth as children of the common Parent, and to look forward, not only for His blessing here, but for His benignant bestowment of happiness hereafter?
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
The audience was a large and brilliant one, composed of members of both races, and was quite demonstrative in the bestowment of applause and in floral offerings.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
If anything can enhance the magnitude of this promised bliss, it is the concluding words of the verse, in which He grounds His plea for its bestowment: “I will—that they behold my glory;”—why?
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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