We are all self-righteous in spots, and none of us is so very wise that he cannot by self-examination and readjustment learn a lot more.

Far better never to have had our boasted form of government, if, whilst it extends the freedom and multiplies the facilities of the wicked, it relieves the righteous of none of the restrictions of a despotic government.

And I think, too, that this is the way, perhaps the only way, to rid ourselves of the fancy that we can be accounted righteous before God for any works or deservings of our own.

But we who follow the Lord and have cleansed His word from human abominations, shall leap as he-goats upon the mountains, and enter upon the heritage of the righteous from Beth-peor even unto the crossings of Jordan.

No moralists then, righteous to excess, Would show fair Virtue in so black a dress, That they, like boys, who some feigned sprite array, First from the spectre fly themselves away: No preachers in the terrible delight, But choose to win by reason, not affright; Not, conjurors like, in fire and brimstone dwell, And draw each moving argument from Hell.

He had even hated them, simply because they were more righteous than he.

What crimes have sullied many of those benefactors whom all ages will admire and honor, and whom, in spite of their defects, we call good men,not bad men to be forgiven for their services, but excellent and righteous on the whole!

But here we must observe the words of the apostle; he calls him a servant that is occupied in works without faith, of which we have already treated at large; but he calls him a son which is righteous by faith alone.

Adj. impious; irreligious &c 989; desecrating &c v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous. un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate. hypocritical &c (false) 544; canting, pietistical^, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous^, righteous over much. bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.

but the righteous into life eternal'.

Chapter 3 is a poetic monologue describing the fate and voicing the contrition of the righteous within the Judean community.

Verily, even toward the righteous among men, candor is a perilous duty.

Something was wrong with a world which pinched the righteous between the grindstones of progress and let the evil prosper.

It seemed as if the old man were taking leave of this life, in full confidence of the rewards which await the righteous beyond the grave.

What I want is, to be righteous like God, beneficent and good-doing like God.

Such a state of your law is not neutrality, and is not righteous towards us nor is it fair towards your own people.

"Outwardly," said Christ, "ye appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

This, he says, is the Spirit of God; and this Spirit he gives to those spirits,souls, as we call them now,who desire it, that they may become righteous with the righteousness of Christ, and good with the goodness of God.

And if it be answered, that though our religious fashions now-a-days are not commanded expressly by the Bible or the Prayer Book, yet they carry out their spirit: remember, in God's name, that that was exactly what the Pharisees said, and their excuse for being righteous above what was written; and that they could, and did, quote texts of Scripture for their phylacteries, their washings, and all their other affectations.