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With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

use. No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him. Tillotson. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith. Rom. iii. 28.

iors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions. A holy and conscientious course. Abp. Tillotson.

e lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.

ng is contingent upon events which he can not control. "Uncertain and contingent causes." Tillotson.

. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillotson. -- To cry out, to proclaim; to shout."Your gesture cries it out." Shak. -- To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest. -- To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy pr…

d of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

. If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. Tillotson.

statement; formal expression; avowal. Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel. Tillotson.

to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

o deteriorate. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson.

e fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

nces, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.

les of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson.

ial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

and or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.