Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.
Those drossy heads & irrepurged braynes w^{ch} sacred fyre of loue hath not refined may grossly think my loue smale worth contaynes because shee is of body smale combined.
Then washing it several times again, they first rub it lightly with their hands; afterward they draw off any earthy and drossy matter with slender sponges gently applied to the powdered dust, till it be clean, pure gold.
What can He do, but melt an old drossy kirk, that He may bring out a new bride out of the fire again?
To waste a little blood with Christ, and to put our part of this drossy world in pawn over in His hand, as willing to quit it for Him, is the safest cabinet to keep the world in.
Earth is a drossy thing in this man's account; earthly greatness and splendors are but like vanishing bubbles in this man's esteem.
We change our drossy dust for gold, From death to life we fly: We let go shadows, and take hold Of immortality.
Earth is a drossy thing in this man's account; earthly greatness and splendours are but like vanishing bubbles in this man's esteem.
The Apostle therefore sets himself to the study of mortification, lest, saith he, when I have been refining and purifying others, I myself be found to be drossy silver.
It is a very purgatory upon earth: it is like the fire to drossy silver, and like fuller’s soap to slovenly persons, who would rather keep the spots in their garments than take pains to wash them out.
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