embasing

How the embasing or vilifying them is a means to destroy religion.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

I proceed now to the second thing proposed in the discussion of this doctrine, which is, to shew how the embasing of the ministers tends to the destruction of religion.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

And this may suffice concerning the second way of embasing God's ministers; namely, by intrusting the ministry with raw, unlearned, ill-bred persons; so that what Solomon speaks of a proverb in the mouth of a fool, the same may be said of the minis try vested in them, that it is like a pearl in a swine's snout.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

The embasing of them tends to the destruction of religion, 111-119.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

The eager desire of riches makes men to pursue them in indirect and uncharitable ways, by falsehood and perjury, by under mining and overreaching, by dissembling and flattery, by corrupting and embasing of commodities, by false weights and measures, by taking fees with both hands, by making use of their power and wit to oppress and defraud their brother, by imposing upon his ignorance and simplicity, or by making a prey of his poverty and necessity.

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820