Meaning of God's token | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sign from God.
2. A rainbow, as a sign of God's promise not to destroy the earth.
3. A sign for God to see.
4. Circumcision.
5. A cross.
   obsolete
6. A plague spot

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In these and other ways the holy Dove is God's token to us of the Almighty and Blessed Comforter;”

“Miracle is God's call to attention: God's token and signal that He is about to speak.”

“Then there is "the bow in the cloud" as God's token of the covenant.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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;”

“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."”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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.”

“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;”

“Rising, she placed herself on the lower step of the altar, and throwing open her bosom , said: “ Then by God's token, kneel.””

“That sign is the Cross of Jesus Christ, God's token.”

“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.”

“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.”

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