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Preparative   Listen
noun
Preparative  n.  
1.
That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares. "A preparative unto sermons."
2.
That which is done in the way of preparation. "Necessary preparatives for our voyage."





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"Preparative" Quotes from Famous Books



... 6. This proposition, too, is false: The regenerate after the Fall are righteous in the same manner as Adam was before the Fall, namely, not by imputation, but by inhabitation or original righteousness.... 8. It is also false when some say we are righteous by faith, namely, in a preparative way in order afterwards to be righteous by the essential righteousness. At bottom this is Popish and destructive of faith.... 9. The following propositions must be rejected altogether: The obedience of Christ ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente


Words linked to "Preparative" :   preparatory, preceding, prepare, propaedeutic


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