God's token

Definitions

1. 1

   A sign from God.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A sign for God to see.

   • 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."
3. 3

   Circumcision.

   • 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.
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      A cross.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      A plague spot

      • 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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