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What does impetration mean?

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  1. (obsolete) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
  2. (obsolete, Britain, law) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.
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By impetration we mean the purchase of all good things made by Christ for us with and of the Father.
No prayer has such a power of impetration as that which comes from a will conformed to the will of God.
Then he gives us learned dissertations on Her whom he calls the Treasure-house of all good, the mediatrix of love and impetration.
The Puritans drew a plain and broad line of demarcation between the impetration or purchase of salvation, and the actual application or bestowing of the same.

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