professeth

For I tell thee, friend, that though there is as great a difference between thee and one of our people as there is between a lion and a sheep, yet I know and believe thou hast so much of the lion in thee, that thou wouldst scarce employ thy strength and thy rage upon that which professeth no means of resistance.

Redgauntlet 2008

“So Heaven deal with me, as, were my life blood necessary to cement the mind of any man to the holy religion he professeth, it should be freely poured out for the purpose.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

For though the advice of one that professeth the study of the law be useful for the avoiding of contention, yet it is but advice: it is the judge must tell men what is law, upon the hearing of the controversy.

Leviathan 2007

A fifth part of the world, and hardly that, now professeth CHRIST, but so inlarded and interlaced with several superstitions, that there is scarce a sound part to be found, or any agreement amongst them.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And therefore Antichrist in the proper signification hath two essential marks: one, that he denieth Jesus to be Christ; and another that he professeth himself to be Christ.

Leviathan 2007

For he that is not glad of any just occasion of martyrdom has not the faith he professeth, but pretends it only, to set some colour upon his own contumacy.

Leviathan 2007

One professeth ([3956] Cardan well notes) for a thousand crowns, but he deserves not ten, when as he that deserves

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Cardan professeth he wrote his book, De Consolatione after his son's death, to comfort himself; so did Tully write of the same subject with like intent after his daughter's departure, if it be his at least, or some impostor's put out in his name, which Lipsius probably suspects.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[5554] Socrates professeth himself love's servant, ignorant in all arts and sciences, a doctor alone in love matters, et quum alienarum rerum omnium scientiam diffiteretur, saith [5555] Maximus Tyrius, his sectator, hujus negotii professor,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But with this mitigation, he attributeth no more infallibility to the Pope than to any man that professeth

Leviathan 2007