If Formalists will make any advantage of the building of synagogues, they must prove that they were founded, not upon the extraordinary warrant of prophets, but upon that ordinary power which the church retaineth still.
Papists give to the species of the bread is only relative to Christ, and of the same kind with that which Formalists give to the bread and wine.
To come nearer the point, Papists profess that they give to the outward signs in the sacrament no other adoration than the same which Formalists give to them.
Yea, out of Formalists themselves, he showeth the difference betwixt subjection and obedience.
But because some Formalists approve not of this course of reconciliation, they (I know) would purge the ceremonies of the blame of it.
If the holidays be observed by Formalists only for order and policy, then they must say the church hath power to change them.
He had done in a month what all the formalists and pedants assembled at the Hague would not have done in ten years.
The formalists of the Cabinet of Madrid thought it beneath the dignity of the Catholic King to give what had not been asked.
It has been said, "We cannot make Christians of our children, and we must not make them formalists or hypocrites.
True, we cannot make our children Christians, and we ought not to make themformalists or hypocrites; but we are not called to make them any thing.
They are the philosophers and the æsthetes among teachers, who see, what the Formalists miss, that he who thinks well will in the long run write as he should.
We know, moreover, that on this matter the camps of the formalists and the romanticists are divided.
A first-class journal does not really suffer because two or three formalists or two or three bigots among its thousands of subscribers give it up for six weeks in a pet of ill-temper--and then take it on again.
I am holier than thou" attitude that so many vain formalists affect in their dealings with other men.
Both classes had a profession; the formalists had a profession and nothing more.
True Christians cannot impart a share of the grace that dwells in their own hearts to deluded formalists in their departing hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "formalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
