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28441 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREVERENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Want of reverence, or want of veneration; want of due regard to the authority and character of the Supreme Being. Irreverence toward God is analogous to disrespect toward man.
28442 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JEALOUSY.7 (Noah Webster)
4. Indignation. God’s jealousy signifies his concern for his own character and government, with a holy indignation against those who violate his laws, and offend against his majesty. Psalm 79:5 .
28443 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LOVE.10 (Noah Webster)
… of God is the first duty of man, and this springs from just views of his attributes or excellencies of character, which afford the highest delight to the sanctified …
28444 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORAL.2 (Noah Webster)
… of God as the standard by which their character is to be determined. The word however may be applied to actions which affect only, or primarily and principally …
28445 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MYSTERY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In religion, any thing in the character or attributes of God, or in the economy of divine providence, which is not revealed to man.
28446 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERMANENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… the character of God, are unalterably permanent. Human laws and institutions may be to a degree permanent, but they are subject to change and overthrow. We …
28447 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PIOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
… the character of God, and habitually obeying his commands; religious; devoted to the service of God; applied to persons.
28448 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEASE.12 (Noah Webster)
To please God, is to love his character and law and perform his will, so as to become the object of his approbation.
28449 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROFANELY.2 (Noah Webster)
The character of God profanely impeached.
28450 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPENT.9 (Noah Webster)
5. In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God’s holy law, a dishonor to his character and government, and the foulest ingratitude to a Being of infinite benevolence.
28451 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SANCTIFY.16 (Noah Webster)
To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isaiah 8:13 .
28452 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEEING.2 (Noah Webster)
… participial character, although its relation to the pronoun is somewhat obscured. Originally, seeing, in this use, had direct relation to the speaker or to …
28453 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SELFISHLY.1 (Noah Webster)
… divine character. As God is love, so man, in his natural state, is selfishness.
28454 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIN.2 (Noah Webster)
… moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam’s apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive act of disobedience …
28455 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPELL.12 (Noah Webster)
5. To read; to discover by characters or marks; with out; as, to speel out the sense of an author. We are not left to spell out a God in the works of creation.
28456 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STAMP.7 (Noah Webster)
God has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being.
28457 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBLIMITY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Highth in excellence; loftiness of nature or character; moral grandeur; as God’s incomprehensible sublimity.
28458 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THEOLOGY.1 (Noah Webster)
… . [Gr. God, and discourse.] Divinity; the science of God and divine things; or the science which teaches the existence, character and attributes of God, his laws and …
28459 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ULTIMATE.3 (Noah Webster)
… and character of God.
28460 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. authority.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… of character, the revealer of doctrines, and the test of experience”