nursing father
Britishnoun
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And must we own him to be a nursing father to the church?
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You, our nursing father, occupy a perpetual seat, being dead, and deserving an end of your great dangers.
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Under such a nursing father the interests of the kingdom of Christ fared as might have been expected.
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What harm the excess thereof brought to the Church perhaps was not found by experience till the days of Constantine; who, out of his zeal, thinking he could be never too liberally a nursing father of the Church, might be not unfitly said to have either overlaid it or choked it in the nursing.
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Very near and dear was that faithful nursing- father brought to this little child's heart.
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