Story
One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.
Isaac Barrow
Mathematician and theologian, 1630-1677
Cited as Barrow. — 105 quotations
Achievement
[The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes.
Acquire
No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
Act
Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
Adjourn
It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
Ancient
A friend, perhaps, or an ancient acquaintance.
Asperity
The acclivities and asperities of duty.
Atheistic
Atheistical explications of natural effects.
Avocate
One who avocateth his mind from other occupations.
Ballast
It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.
Bastard
That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices.
Beatify
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
Bedaub
Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish.
Bestead
Many far worse bestead than ourselves.
Betime
To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work.
Bicker
Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
Boggle
Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
Border
In the borders of death.
Brutify
Any man not quite brutified and void of sense.
Buckle
To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.
Bungler
If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such!
Capacify
The benefice he is capacified and designed for.
Clancular
Not close and clancular, but frank and open.
Communicatory
Canonical and communicatory letters.
Completory
Completory of ancient presignifications.
Comprisal
A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness.
Concourse
The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
Constitutive
An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue.
Contestation
A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God.
Dally
We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
Depute
The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
Diminish
Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt.
Directive
The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God.
Discoast
To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.
Discriminate
To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
Dismount
Dismounted from his authority.
Displease
Adversity is so wholesome . . . why should we be displeased therewith?
Disposer
Absolute lord and disposer of all things.
Doing
To render an account of his doings.
Effuse
So should our joy be very effuse.
Embracement
A ready embracement of . . . his kindness.
Enlarge
It will enlarge us from all restraints.
Erect
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
Evanid
They are very transitory and evanid.
Expediment
A like expediment to remove discontent.
Expletive
Expletive phrases to plump his speech.
Exterminate
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
Flashy
A little flashy and transient pleasure.
Flat
Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
Flippant
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
Flounce
To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
Flux
The flux nature of all things here.
Generosity
Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Hepatize
On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water.
Impetration
In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses.
Impression
To shelter us from impressions of weather, we must spin, we must weave, we must build.
Improve
We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.
Incorrigibility
The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind.
Indefectible
An indefectible treasure in the heavens.
Indubitably
Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain.
Invidious
Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man.
Kelter
If the organs of prayer be out of kelter or out of tune, how can we pray?
Kidney
There are in later times other decrees, made by popes of another kidney.
Lank
Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain?
Lassitude
The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude.
Little
Conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon their own fancies.
Nuncupate
In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it?
Oscitant
He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge.
Patness
The description with equal patness may suit both.
Peg
To screw papal authority to the highest peg.
Pettifoggery
Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.
Pose
A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.
Propend
We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down.
Pudder
Puddering in the designs or doings of others.
Pule
It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule.
Quash
Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
Quirk
We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks.
Radicate
Time should . . . rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness.
Rakehell
It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.
Rate
Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
Re-collect
God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust.
Rear
It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts.
Reside
In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside.
Ringleader
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance.
Skill
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.
Slump
The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
Somewhither
Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither.
Suburbicarian
The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts.
Supple
They should supple our stiff willfulness.
Surprisal
Because death is uncertain, let us prevent its surprisal.
Temerity
It is notorious temerity to pass sentence upon grounds uncapable of evidence.
Ticklish
Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish?
Tincture
The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul.
Umpire
A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others.
Untack
being untacked from honest cares.
Vagrancy
Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy.
Vent
Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations.
Veracious
The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious.
Verge
Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center.
Villainy
In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment.
Void
A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices.
Waive
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
Whenas
Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter.
Will
Two things he [God] willeth, that we should be good, and that we should be happy.