Date: 1678
"This righteousness, I say, true faith accepteth, under the skirt of which, the soul being shrouded, and by it presented as spotless before God, it is accepted, and acquit from condemnation."
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Date: 1692
"This Letter (said Brook) shews that the force of Affectation draws a Veil before the Judgment, which else would govern Fancy according to Sense, and Reason."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1697
"But tho I must always acknowledg to that justly admir'd Gentleman, the great Obligation of my first Deliverance from the unintelligible way of talking of the Philosophy in use in the Schools in his time, yet I am so far from entitling his Writings to any of the Errors or Imperfections which are ...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)