I have no view, in thus soliciting the attention of those who are more, or of those who are less religiously disposed, to attempt to proselyte to Quakerism.
Soon, however, it appeared that the proselyte had little chance of obtaining the splendid prize on which his heart was set.
Obadiah Walker and the other Oxonian Papists who were in attendance to support their proselyte were utterly confounded.
Enthusiasm--predilection to a favourite but persecuted system--may induce an ardent proselyte not only to deceive others, but unwittingly to deceive himself.
In the mountains of Georgia, the native Christians still braved the law and the sword of Mahomet, by three expeditions he obtained the merit of the gazie, or holy war; and the prince of Teflis became his proselyte and friend.
He composed them to satisfy a proselyte who was assaulted with letters from his friends of Ispahan.
Bielke, a noble Swede and a proselyte to the Catholic faith.
The king of Bulgaria was resistless and inexorable; and Calo-John respectfully eluded the demands of the pope, who conjured his new proselyte to restore peace and the emperor to the afflicted Latins.
Then many of them truly believed: and of the Grecian proselyte women of respectability, and of the men not a few.
In the presence of helpless suffering, and in the fast-darkening shadow of the Destroyer, he forgot all but his Christian humanity, and cared more about consoling his fellow-man than making a proselyte of him.
I find some very strange beliefs among the women I meet with, and I want to be able to silence them when they attempt to proselyte me to their whims and fancies.
Aquila is represented to have been a Jewish proselyte of Pontus, and to have lived in the second century.
According to a Jewish tradition, Onkelos was a proselyte and nephew of the emperor Titus, so that he must have flourished about the time of the destruction of the second temple.
Were proselyte and chattel synonymes, in the Divine vocabulary?
Footnote A: The rites by which a stranger became a proselyte transformed him into a Jew.
Were proselyte and chattel synonymes in the Divine vocabulary?
When the Methodists and Baptists had had a chance to proselyte the Negroes, the Episcopalians and the like were almost relieved of the necessity for any effort among them.
On finding him well disposed, Danby took his proselyte to the king, who assured him of his regard for the constitution, and was right loyally believed.
And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor, and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.
The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.
These he dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, who, like the poet himself, was a proselyte to the Catholic faith, he also honored her with a panegyric, in return for which the queen sent him a golden locket and chain.
This subject naturally gave the proselyte occasion to display his burning zeal for Rome; and upon the publication of the play a great outcry was raised against both drama and author.
The lance of a Roman decided the alternative; but the falling standard was rescued by Kaled, the proselyte of Mecca; nine swords were broken in his hand; and his valor withstood and repulsed the superior numbers of the Christians.
Another renowned proselyte who repaired to the prophet at this village was Salman al Parsi--or the Persian.
Nay, he was in danger of becoming a proselyte to Sir Steady's opinion, when he recalled and compared every circumstance which he knew of Pickle's impatience and impetuosity.
Some of them I endeavoured to bring over to my maxims, while they attempted to make a proselyte of me; but, finding the task impracticable on both sides, we very wisely dropped each other.
Every Proselyte is like a new Argument for the Establishment of his Faith.
They succeeded through their influence with the czar in placing at the head of the whole Russian church a zealous proselyte for their sect in the archimandrite Zosima.
If the Roman world might be compared to a proselyte who in ripe, well proved and much experienced maturity receives baptism, the conversion of the Germans may be compared to the baptism of children.
But of course, daughter, thou wilt have the boy circumcised, and bring him up as a proselyte of Israel.
They were quoted to me once by Helen, Queen of Adiabene, who is now living as a proselyte at Jerusalem; and I have been taught that there is but one God.
And on this reasoning the proselyte was permitted to enter the congregation.
I esteem it a great compliment on the part of the proselyte to leave his family and his father's house and come to Me.
On the morrow Hillel reversed the order of these letters, upon which the proselyte remonstrated and said, "But thou didst not teach me so yesterday.
Nevertheless, you may make me a proselyte on condition that you teach me the written law only.
The Targum of the Pentateuch was executed by Onkelos the proselyte at the dictation of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua, and the Targum of the prophets was executed by Jonathan ben Uzziel at the dictation of Haggai, Zachariah, and Malachi (!
The daughters of a male proselyte who has married the daughter of a female proselyte are eligible to marry priests.
Rome honored its distinguished proselyte by making him a cardinal.
But the Lord spared a proselyte and a stranger for His name's sake, and mercifully assisted me greatly in that affliction, because I was not entirely deserving of reproach.
I dwell amongst barbarians as a proselyte and a fugitive for the love of God.
However, Antigonus, the enemy of Herod, though Herod were derived from such a proselyte of justice for several generations, will allow him to be no more than a half Jew, B.
