nursing father
Britishnoun
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He was at times led in a plain close manner to the unfaithful professors of truth, but had the word of consolation to the rightly exercised, unto whom he was indeed a nursing father.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John
Under such a nursing father the interests of the kingdom of Christ fared as might have been expected.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
His love to the people was evident, in serving them in a public capacity many years at his own cost, and that as a nursing father to the churches of Christ.
From Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Campbell, Helen
You, our nursing father, occupy a perpetual seat, being dead, and deserving an end of your great dangers.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
And must we own him to be a nursing father to the church?
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
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