Henry Hammond

Alacrious

'T were well if we were a little more alacrious.

Antipodes

Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel?

Attemperate

Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise.

Babel

That babel of strange heathen languages.

Ballast

'T is charity must ballast the heart.

Broiler

What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church?

Calling

To impose celibacy on wholy callings.

Coin

The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.

Compline

The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night.

Compost

A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.

Confirm

Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.

Consonance

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.

Contemptuous

A proud, contemptuous behavior.

Contumacious

There is another very, efficacious method for subduing the most obstinate, contumacious sinner.

Conventicle

The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution.

Correption

Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.

Deictically

When Christ spake it deictically.

Dementate

Arise, thou dementate sinner!

Demise

His soul is at his conception demised to him.

Deposit

If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error.

Depress

If the seal be depress or hollow.

Desperation

This desperation of success chills all our industry.

Disaffect

It disaffects the bowels.

Disburden

My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened.

dislike

God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin.

Ecstatic

This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.

Holdback

The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth.

Idiotism

The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism.

Imposition

Made more solemn by the imposition of hands.

Indulgence

They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.

Infusible

Doctrines being infusible into all.

Ingratiate

What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

Interpretative

An interpretative siding with heresies.

Lustrate

We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.

Mindful

I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions.

Minutely

Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence.

Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven.

Moralist

The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself.

Reflexive

Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.

Repentance

Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.

Reward

God rewards those that have made use of the single talent.

Science

If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.

Sensitive

A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.

Set

If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.

Sportingly

The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.

Stricture

[I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage.

Supervenient

That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice.

Take

The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners.

Vision

Faith here is turned into vision there.

Wide

The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God.