'Tis not scurrile this, but chaste, honest, most part serious, and even of religion itself.

Preach out of a book, if you must; but do not read in it, or even from it.

Few passages in the Sacred Writings have occasioned so much mischief, abject slavishness, bloated pride, tyrannous usurpation, bloody persecution, with kings even against their will the drudges, false soul-destroying quiet of conscience, as this text, 'John' xx. 23.

That even Luther partook of the delusion, this paragraph gives proof.

Even so it was with Ambrose: he wrote indeed well and purely, was more serious in writing than Austin, who was amiable and mild.

Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabbiest like a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.

Even in Luther's lowest imbecilities what gleams of vigorous good sense!

Even to the immediate disciples and Apostles could the text (if indeed it have reference to sins in our sense at all,) mean more than this,Whenever you discover, by the spirit of knowledge which I will send unto you, repentance and faith, you shall declare remission of sins; and the sins shall be remitted;-and where the contrary exists, your declaration of exclusion from bliss shall be fulfilled?

3. It will secure you from the idolatry of the present times and fashions, and create the noblest kind of imaginative power in your soul, that of living in past ages; wholly devoid of which power, a man can neither anticipate the future, nor even live a truly human life, a life of reason in the present.

For the Socinians till Biddle retained much of the Christian religion, for example, Redemption by the Cross, and the omnipresence of Christ as to this planet even as the Romanists with their Saints.

He who seeks for more, knows not what he is talking of; he who will not seek even this is either indifferent to the truth of what he professes to believe, or he mistakes a general determination not to disbelieve for a positive and especial faith, which is only our faith as far as we can assign a reason for it.

Our words and thoughts are but parts of the enginery which remains with ourselves; and logic, the rustling dry leaves of the lifeless reflex faculty, does not merit even the name of a pulley or lever of devotion.

For do not the duties and temptations occur in real life even so intermingled?

Let me mediate here between Baxter and the Bishops: Baxter had taken for granted that the King had a right to promise a revision of the Liturgy, Canons and regiment of the Church, and that the Bishops ought to have met him and his friends as diplomatists on even ground.

There is at present but one safe road: this therefore is commanded by A.; and would be so, even though A. had spoken of another road which at that time was open.

Even Cromwell, though he might have prevented, could not have effected, the sentence.

But I more than doubt the possibility of even approximating the principles of Bishop Jeremy Taylor to the fundamental doctrines of Leighton, much more to those of Cartwright, Twiss, or Owen.

It was the first time even my West India eyes ever beheld a distinction of colour maintained in the house of God!

Slavery even in Cuba, with all its horrors, is far milder than in the United States.)

Already he can lisp to idols, but he has never even heard of the Christ who said, "Suffer the children.

The illustrations, I know now, were very fine, and even then we found them wonderful.

Even proud-pied April dressed in all its trim can't put a spirit of youth into anything.

He felt that his second book ought to be better than his first, and he doubted whether he would even be able to write anything half so good.

He had, too, something of the Arabian dignity in his bearing, and he walked with long, well-balanced steps, swiftly, but without haste, as the Arab walks barefooted in the sand, not even suspecting that weariness can ever come upon him; erect, proud, without self-consciousness, elastic; collected and ever ready, in his easy and effortless movement, for sudden and violent action.

He knew the absolute truth of all that Matilde had told him, and he had even suspected much of it before she had first spoken.