God's token

noun God's tokens

1. A sign from God. Open not your Mouths, (as if he should say) shew no such sorrow as at other times, for God is Just (and he hath let out his deserved Wrath against these young Men) least you should seem to Justifie them, and shew a dislike of God's token of Divine dispeasure.
2. A rainbow, as a sign of God's promise not to destroy the earth. Then there is "the bow in the cloud" as God's token of the covenant.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. obsolete 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;
6. A plague spot The emphasis in Lodge's definition is on the unambiguous hermeneutic certainty –'a sure and unfeigned judgement ' – of the plague symptom, popularly known as God's token because, being a dubious gift from above, it leaves no room either for doubt or for remedy.