preceptive

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The knowledge communicated to us of the preceptive will of God to his church, under the first dispensation, is very limited.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by Dodge, David Low

We might infer this from the extent of the reading, which was sufficient for all the preceptive parts of the Pentateuch.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

Grammars too, like spelling primers and rhetorics and logic and every kind of preceptive teaching, may be assumed as a form separated from its contents, as something empty and abstract.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

Hence the present epistle differs strikingly in its preceptive part from the other two.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

Nothing, therefore, remains for them, but either to acknowledge this clear distinction between the providential and preceptive will of God, or then profess the lawfulness of both the above mentioned powers.

From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed