What does tempestuate mean?
Tempestuate means (obsolete) To stir up; to make tempestuous..
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(obsolete) To stir up; to make tempestuous..
In truth, as it is said in the second Psalm, God only " laughs " at their rage : that is, He winks, as it were, and leaves them to tempestuate, as though the matter did not at all belong to Him.
Creature-smiles stop and entice away the affections from Jesus Christ; creature-frowns encompass and tempestuate the spirit, that it thinks it does well to be angry; both ways, grace is a loser.
It is true, that reference to the horrors of the Romish Inquisition, as well as other cruelties practised by the church and court of Rome, is sufficient to curdle our blood, but it must not tempestuate our spirits, or make them wax hot.
As if God's will in the matter had somehow become unreasonable, and required conjurations of manner, to recover it, or as if God must needs be tempestuated by the suitor, in order to be successfully carried.
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Tempestuate means (obsolete) To stir up; to make tempestuous..
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In truth, as it is said in the second Psalm, God only " laughs " at their rage : that is, He winks, as it were, and leaves them to tempestuate, as though the matter did not at all belong to Him.
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