There are many graces required of us, whose material and formal part is repentance.—Bishop Taylor, Doctrine and Practice of Repentance, i. 3, 47.
It is not only as impious and irreligious a thing, but as senseless and as absurd a thing to deny that the Son of God hath redeemed the world, as to deny that God hath created the world; and he is as formally and as gloriously a martyr that dies for this article, The Son of God is come, as he that dies for this, There is a God.—Donne, Sermons, 1640, p. 69.
According to the rule of the casuists, the formality of prodigality is inordinateness of our laying out, or misbestowing on what we should not.—Whitlock, Zootomia, p. 497.
When the school makes pertinacy or obstinacy to be the formality of heresy, they say not true at all, unless it be meant the obstinacy of the will and choice; and if they do, they speak impertinently and inartificially, this being but one of the causes that make error become heresy; the adequate and perfect formality of heresy is whatsoever makes the error voluntary and vicious.—Bishop Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, § 2, 10.
Strong and importunate persuasions have not the nature and formality of force: but they have oftentimes the effect of it; and he that solicits earnestly, sometimes determines as certainly as if he did force.—South, Sermons, 1744, vol. viii. p. 288.
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| Frenchman. |
We consider now, and consider rightly, that there was properly no ‘France’ before there were Franks; and, speaking of the land and people before the Frankish conquest, we use Gaul, Gauls, and Gaulish; just as we should not now speak of Cæsar’s ‘journey into England.’ Our fathers had not these scruples (North, Plutarch’s Lives). See the quotation from Milton, s. v. ‘Civil.’
When Cæsar saw his army prone to war,
And fates so bent, lest sloth and long delay
Might cross him, he withdrew his troops from France,