The formalist and hypocrite follow the persuasions of man, and take an easier path, and are lost.
Did Formalistand Hypocrite turn off into bye ways at the foot of the hill Difficulty, and miserably perish?
He stays not for human calls or ordination, but attempts to awaken them to a sense of their danger, and presently exhorts with authority the formalist and hypocrite.
Neither is the formalist exempted from this number.
The formalist has only the shell of religion; he is hot for forms because it is all that he has to contend for.
Let the formalist and lukewarm professors read this and tremble.
And then shalt thou be happy when thou shunnest to desire as the natural man desireth, as the hypocrite desireth, or as the formalist desireth.
And thus the transition is easily made from a comparatively innocent and unconscious formalist to a conscious and studied hypocrite.
Look at the religious formalist at family worship with his household gathered round him all in his own image.
A formalistis not yet a hypocrite exactly, but he is ready now and well on the way at any moment to become a hypocrite.
Bunyan lets us see how a formalist and a hypocrite and a Christian all respectively do when they come to a real difficulty.
To the eye of an ignorant man a formalist may seem to have a very decent quantity of religion, though not perhaps of the best quality.
Seared and hardened as the heart of a formalist may be, there is balm in Gilead which can heal him, and a Physician who is mighty to save.
The formalist and the fleshly he classes together, because of their stupidity.
To the formalist Isaiah says, Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider; to the fleshly (chap.
Those phrases of the so-called formalist may each mean five or six different things.
Perhaps on this point I may in Oxford appeal to authority, that of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater, the latter at any rate an authority whom the formalist will not despise.
The extreme formalistlays his whole weight on the form because he thinks its opposite is the mere subject.
To the formalist proper it was self-condemned in its pretension to develop the content of thought and its rejection of the formula of bare-identity.
The extreme formalistis guilty of a fallacy of composition in regard to abstraction.
Camero,(882) as learned a Formalist as any of the former, expresseth his judgment copiously touching our present question.
This much(318) a Formalist of great note is forced to acknowledge.
What Formalist dare yield us such liberty, as by ourselves, and without seeking a dispensation from superiors, to neglect the observation of their statutes, when we see evident cause for so doing?
The king scornfully cut up the roll of his prophecies; and the people following their formalist leaders rejected his word.
Though the people came to his side at one crisis, they rejected him at others and fell back on their formalist teachers, and the prophets of a careless optimism.
The seven composers were charged with "formalist distortions and anti-democratic tendencies in music" in several of their more recent symphonic and operatic works.
We are speaking of composers," read the statement, "who confine themselves to the formalist anti-public trend.
The power" of godliness involves the recognition of God's claims, the implanting of His kingdom in the heart, and the consequent exhibition thereof in the whole life and character; but the formalist knows nothing of this.
Formalist and Hypocrisy choose the easy ways, and are heard of no more.
They are come from the land of Vain Glory, and are called Formalist and Hypocrisy.
