Sentence examples for the elect from inspiring English sources

Though the Israelites have prided themselves on being the elect of God, they have misinterpreted this election as privilege instead of responsibility.

We were the elect, and the elect are barred from everything, you know, except heaven.

Only the elect could vote and rule in the commonwealth.

The community was divided into the elect, who felt able to embrace a rigorous rule, and the hearers who supported the elect with works and alms.

Zanchius gave Reformed orthodoxy its classic formulation of the doctrine of the perseverance of the elect.

Luther, as noted, saw no way of knowing who were the elect.

By becoming sick, they could be healed and thus join the elect.

Cotton's plan ensured that church government should be in the hands of the elect.

In European chancelleries the talk is of who should be the elect ones.

They are the elect, precisely because they know how to keep up the artifice.

"The elect will gather the fruits of this wonderful tree," Dom.