After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory.

Having issued, in November 1789, a declaration affirming its intent to " oppose, as much as we are able, all that the representatives of the Commune may undertake that is harmful to the general rights of our constituents ," the Cordeliers district remained in conflict with the Parisian government throughout the winter and spring of 1790.

By doing so we were affirming that we were already free ".

When we deicide a story has fidelity we are not just affirming our shared beliefs, but opening up ourselves to the thought that these values will ultimately influence our beliefs and values ( Griffin 304 )

The Report of 1800 reviewed and affirmed each part of the Virginia Resolution, affirming that the states have the right to declare that a federal action is unconstitutional.

Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

Both have apparently similar but invalid forms such as affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, and evidence of absence.

" While there is no bright line rule as to what constitutes “ repeatedly ,” most cases affirming the vexatious litigant designation involve situations where litigants have filed dozens of motions either during the pendency of an action or relating to the same judgment.

He plainly told them, when witnesses were produced against him, that he came not thither with an intention to deny anything he had done, but rather to bring it to light, owning his name subscribed to the warrant for executing the King, to be written by himself ; charging divers of those who sat on the Bench, as his judges, to have been formerly as active for the cause, in which he had engaged, as himself or any other person ; affirming that he had not acted by any other motive than the principles of conscience and justice ; for proof of which he said it was well known, he had chosen to be separated from his family, and to suffer a long imprisonment rather than to comply with those who had abused the power they had assumed to the oppression of the people.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

IEEE publications have received a Green rating the from SHERPA / RoMEO guide for affirming " authors and / or their companies shall have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission " ( IEEE Publication Policy 8. 1. 9. D ).

In some cities gays and lesbians congregate in visibly identified gay neighborhoods, while in others they are dispersed in neighborhoods which have less gay visibility because a liberal, affirming counterculture is present.

Additionally, the modern day Athari view is that the Ash ' aris are wrong to interpret the attributes of God metaphorically, and that a better position would have been to restrict and refrain from it and entering into speculative discourse, a more correct position being affirming belief of the apparent meaning of the text of the Qur ' an and Hadeeth and leaving their reality or modality to Allah alone as He alone knows their true reality.

Golenbock, other Cardinal historians, and Caray's former wife have suggested the cause was a purported affair Caray had with the daughter-in-law of Cardinals owner August A. Busch, Jr. ( who also owned Anheuser-Busch brewery, the club's broadcast sponsor ); Caray first called it a business grudge while never necessarily denying or affirming the rumors.

The subsequent Tenth Amendment, detailing non-enumerated rights as the sole property of the states and the people, is often cited as the clarification for this inconsistency and the reason why the federal courts have no say in affirming or denying said rights per the Ninth Amendment.

On this theory, the royal forester would have organised sympathetic magic rituals to ensure a plentiful catch each year, a tradition that survived into Christian times and gradually came to be seen as affirming the villagers ' hunting rights.

Various groups have adopted radical center as a term to describe a philosophy which includes their belief that, in affirming the core principles involved on both sides of a dilemma, the dilemma or disagreement can be rendered moot.

Generally, the certification includes affected person affirming that they are " able and available for work ", the amount of any part-time earnings they may have had, and whether they are actively seeking work.

Despite otherwise implicitly affirming the essentially capitalist nature of Fiji, the Constitution recognizes that there are certain sectors of the population who have not shared fairly in Fiji's economic, social, and political development, and that the state has a responsibility to create an environment of equal opportunity.

And contains further, "... affirming today their respect for international law, ... working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations ,... have endeavored at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland.

" My only regret is not to have obtained at the time of my passage to the Elysium the creation of an academy of the Sea ", Guimard said, affirming that this experiment " was not directed, but only one long accident ".

There, he became an enemy of the state by defying the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which would have required him to take an oath affirming the Revolution's secular values and disclaiming the authority of the Church.

Many philosophers and theologians have rejected this conception of god while affirming belief in another conception of god, including St. Augustine, Maimonides, St. Thomas Aquinas, Baruch Spinoza, and Søren Kierkegaard.

By 2010, Orlando was received as part of Potter's successful oeuvre with Matthew Connelly and had one critic affirming in the very first line of his review that " arely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando, the 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel, directed by Sally Potter and starring Tilda Swinton.

After the flight, astronaut John Glenn stated that he believed a human passenger would have been able to bring the capsule under control without the need for an early re-entry, thus ( in the words of Time Magazine ) " affirming the superiority of astronauts over chimponauts.

However, there have been numerous studies affirming that AIDS funds can actually advance and synergistically reinforce the overall primary healthcare infrastructure in recipient countries beyond just HIV / AIDS.

" Before voluntarily leaving EWTN, Groeschel released a statement saying that he did not intend to " blame the victim ", affirming that sexual abuse by priests is " always always wrong " and stating that, " I deeply regret any harm I have caused to anyone.

In one particular experiment, Shaw tried to get them to say on film that he was not allowed to touch the object he was supposed to bend in the experiment ( he had already secretly done that, and with them affirming that he could not and had not touched it, the ' miracle ' would look even greater ).

" Thenceforth, in affirming to myself, without chicanery or diminution, the authentic value of the reality of our human instruments of knowledge, I was already a Thomist without knowing it … When several months later I came to the Summa Theologiae, I would construct no impediment to its luminous flood.

When he took his seat in September objection was taken to claims of parliamentary corruption he had made when resigning from Parliament in 1894, and Sir Alexander Stuart moved a resolution affirming that the words he had used were a gross libel on the house.

However both affirming and dissenting Justices were decisive that the Constitution required a sharp separation between government and religion and their strongly worded opinions paved the way to a series of later court decisions that taken together brought about profound changes in legislation, public education, and other policies involving matters of religion.

Finally, given the active role that the U. S. Legislature has taken in affirming the " special relationship ," and the plenary power given to Congress in acknowledging tribal status ( explicitly delegated, in this instance, to the State of Hawaii ), it is not appropriate for the Court to deny its existence of that status, or to determine its terms.

Often the first step was affirming with " In principle yes " and then adding an explanation after the famous " but ".

He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.

Spence is famous for having introduced an affirming image of black women into early American drama, using her unique mix of folk art and political race drama.

However, the intellectual circle around the philologist Matija Čop and the Romantic poet France Prešeren was influential in affirming the idea of Slovene linguistic and cultural individuality, refusing the idea of merging the Slovenes into a wider Slavic nation.

One example: All Muslim schools of theology faced the dilemma of affirming Divine transcendence and Divine attributes, without falling into anthropomorphism on the one hand, or emptying Divine attributes, mentioned in scripture, of any concrete meaning on the other.

The Greek spectators, by looking into the abyss of human suffering and affirming it, passionately and joyously affirmed the meaning of their own existence.

" In addition to affirming the inherent nature of rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, the Declaration both describes a view of Government as the servant of the people, and enumerates its separation of powers into the administration, legislature, and judiciary.

Wightman had by now isolated himself from all orthodox groups, calling into question many tenets of orthodox belief, arguing “ that the baptizing of infants is an abominable custom ... the practice of the Sacraments as they are now used in the Church of England are according to Christ his Institution ... affirming that only the sacrament of baptism to be administered in water to converts of sufficient age of understanding converted from infidelity to the faith ”.

By 1993 AIM had split into two main factions, with the AIM-Grand Governing Council based in Minneapolis and affirming its right to use the name and trademarks for affiliated chapters.

Due to this, many transsexual people feel coerced into affirming pre-ordained symptoms of self-loathing, impotence, and sexual-preference, in order to overcome simple legal and medical hurdles.

In addition to affirming its members ' right of “ freely enquiring into the truth of all religions which claim to be a Revelation from some intelligent being superior to man ,” the group ’ s Constitution declared that “ Female members of this Society shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as male members .”

In a four-day bench trial in Los Angeles, Judge Manuel Real made the final decision and gave his verdict on November 24, 1976, affirming that the King Kong novelization and serialization were indeed in the public domain, and Universal could make its movie as long as it didn't infringe on original elements in the 1933 RKO film, which had not passed into public domain.

Within days after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940, the President was pressured into affirming the Andrei Zhdanov appointed puppet government of Johannes Vares, following the arrival of demonstrators accompanied by Red Army troops with armored vehicles to the Presidential palace.

These principles were put into practice by affirming rather than making an oath or shaking hands to agree upon a deal, setting fixed prices for goods, avoiding the use of honorific titles and using familiar forms for the second person pronoun.

On 5 September 2007, Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his appointment as patron of South Africa's Barbecue ( Braai ) Day, affirming it to be a unifying force in a divided country ( by donning an apron and tucking into a boerewors sausage ).