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This is of absolute use in this matter; yea, so absolute that it is impossible for any Christian to do his work christianly, without some enjoyment of it.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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It is also to be considered that those acts of our graces that cannot be put forth or show themselves in their splendor but when we christianly suffer, will yield such fruit to those whose trials call them into exercise, as will in the day of God abound to their comfort and tend to their perfection in glory.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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Dürer, christianly passed away, with all the sacraments, absolved by papal power from pain and sin.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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And a whole year after the day she was first taken ill, she received the holy sacraments and christianly passed away two hours before nightfall -- it was on a Tuesday, the 17th day of May in the year 1514.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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And certainly he exhibited something more christianly in reconciling and pacifying them than they who brewed this work had done, or those who would be so very devout that they would neither speak to them authoritatively nor admonish them with kindness to any effect.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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I might say in closing this that Campbellism ever since its birth, has been met by our Baptist ministers very christianly and logically -- and to-day though they have strayed from home, yet their mother, the Baptist Church, will accept them at any time.
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Once legally, as well as christianly, man and wife, the two could stay in Muro as long as they pleased.
Taquisara 1881
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Being rapt also in spirite, they sayde he behelde the joyes of heaven and sorrowes of hell; for scant were there three in the realme, sayde he, that lived christianly.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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Beauvilliers, as sincere and as christianly as he, without much wits, modestly allowed himself to be led; all the motives that act most powerfully on a generous spirit, honor, confidence, fear and love of
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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Sir Robert Cecil, who seems to have been a cool and critical spectator of the fatal scene, remarks to his correspondent that "the conflict between the flesh and the soul did thus far appear, that in his prayers he was fain to be helped; otherwise no man living could pray more christianly than he did."
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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