It is considered as a great act of grace in this prince, that he mitigated the rigour of the forest laws, and punished any transgressions of them, not capitally, but by fines, imprisonments, and other more moderate penalties.

I desire to give God the praise; I bless him that He does forgive our transgressions and heal our diseases.

Saul, perceiving that he had sinned, confessed his transgression, but palliated it by saying that he feared the people.

"Alas," said he, "this gentleman whom I would save had an honourable father, for whose sake I pray you pardon the young man's transgression."

His mother, wond'ring, saw him cry, And fondly ask'd the reason why; Then Richard made confession, And said, he fear'd the little bird He singing in the air had heard Was telling his transgression.

But it is I alone who blot out thy transgressions,

Having in the above paragraph got into the parson's private preserve, as I shall be liable anyhow to an action for trespass, I am tempted to commit the additional transgression of poaching, and to give you a few extracts from a sermon a friend of mine once delivered.

Some time before his death, Isabel, whose conscience had always reproached her with the deception practised on her father, and with the banishment of George from his country and home, threw herself at the feet of Sir Peter and acknowledged her transgression.

Now this is exactly what the Spirit says in the Bible"I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions" (Isaiah xliii: 25).

26 The transgression (that) I committed I knew not.

The efforts described under the last head for gaining a personal influence over those who, from their disposition and character, are most in danger of doing wrong, will not be sufficient entirely to prevent transgression.

Will you say I excuse Adam's transgressions and come down hard on Eve?

He could not divest himself of the feeling of anxiety, that in some way or other, Forester had found out his transgression.

A lapse from all this favour, into conscious guilt and misery; a knowledge of good withdrawn, and of evil made too sure; followed the first transgression.

The first alienated him, so far as he was known, from the higher respectable classes, who generally were punctilious in the outward observances of religion; and the second made him abhorred by the virtuous middle class, who never condoned his transgressions in this respect.

But however great your transgression, be assured of my forgiveness, my compassion, and my continued love."

If I offended, 'twas my Maister's love That made me hide his great transgressions:

If they forsake his law, and walk not in his judgments; if they break his statutes and keep not his commandments, he will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes, nevertheless his loving-kindness will he not utterly take from them, nor suffer his faithfulness to fail; his covenant will he not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of his lips, Psalm lxxxix.

"My conscience" (saith Anselm) "dictates to me that I deserve damnation, my repentance will not suffice for satisfaction: but thy mercy, O Lord, quite overcometh all my transgressions."

If we would sometimes apply Tolstoi's doctrine of non-resistance to children, if we would overlook the small transgression and quietly supply another vent for the troublesome activity, there would be less clashing of wills, and less raising of an evil spirit, which gains wonderful strength while in action.

And again: Had he not other words than nouns, when he made answer concerning his transgression: "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;

"The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Recovering myself, and wishing to intimidate him: "'I desire in the first place,' I said, 'to point out to you your grave transgression of municipal regulations in omitting to paint your name over your shop.' "'Call me Rattila,' he rejoined with unconcern, 'and state your further business.'

The Church is kind And in her mercy and her meekness She meets half-way her children's weakness, Writes their transgressions in the dust!

He also spoke of "the constant outrages and taunts which have been causing misery to the Manilans," and referred to the "useless conferences" and contempt shown for the Filipino government as proving a "premeditated transgression of justice and liberty."