But wise Speranza gaue him comfort sweet, 2 And taught him how to take assured hold Vpon her siluer anchor, as was meet; 4 Else had his sinnes so great, and manifold Made him forget all that Fidelia told.
If thou do pardon, whosoeuer pray, More sinnes for this forgiuenesse, prosper may.
You cannot make grosse sinnes looke cleare, To reuenge is no Valour, but to beare Alci.
If Heauen haue any grieuous plague in store, Exceeding those that I can wish vpon thee, O let them keepe it, till thy sinnes be ripe, And then hurle downe their indignation On thee, the troubler of the poore Worlds peace.
Diuinitie of hell, When diuels will the blackest sinnes put on, They do suggest at first with heauenly shewes, As I do now.
You're a mad olde man: If the sinnes of your youth are forgiuen you, you're well to liue.
Place sinnes with Gold, and the strong Lance of Iustice, hurtlesse breakes: Arme it in ragges, a Pigmies straw do's pierce it.
Nimph, in thy Orizons Be all my sinnes remembred Ophe.
They know that do accuse me, I know none: If I know more of any man aliue Then that which maiden modestie doth warrant, Let all my sinnes lacke mercy.
Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call, For, as thy sinnes increase, thy haires doe fall.
May then sinnes sleep, and deaths soone from me passe, That wak't from both, I againe risen may Salute the last, and everlasting day.
His hand hath of my sinnesframed a yoake Which wreath'd, and cast upon my neck, hath broke My strength.
Our Fathers did these sinnes, and are no more, But wee do beare the sinnes they did before.
Who this Corne in theyr hart nor thresh, nor lay, Breake for sinnes debt, unthrifty never pay.
Sinnes price seemd payd with brasse, fewe sawe the gold, 15 Yet true stones set in lead theyr lustre hold.
And then thy sinnes O Sion, shall be spent, 345 The Lord will not leave thee in banishment.
And that God might shew how[n] much Manasses had prouoked him to wrath, through his transcendent and outragious sinnes in the Catalogue thereof, his conspiring with Diuels is mentioned 1.
And this is recorded in the Catalogue of those sinnes of Manasses, by which hee sought to prouoke God vnto anger, 2.
This self-deceiver, is a double sinner: he sinnes in that he is deceived, hee sinnesagain in that he doth deceive himself.
It is true that the least ake of his least finger is infiniti meriti, sed non definiti meriti, that is of an infinite merit, yet not that determined ransome for the sinnes of the whole world.
XXII But wise Speranza gave him comfort sweet, 190 And taught him how to take assured hold Upon her silver anchor, as was meet; Else had his sinnes so great and manifold Made him forget all that Fidelia told.
For answer to this question, I shall not be ready positively to determine these things, but I humbly conceive, that as the representations are oft done by evil angels, so likewise it is probable that it may be done by good angels.
It may be, they will say, such a house is shut up, I saw the red crosse on the doore; but look on thine own guilty conscience, and thou shalt find thou hast a multitude of red crimson sinnes remaining in thee.
Also from the mountaine of pardons vntill they be passed the said pillers none dare looke backward, for feare least the sinnes which he hath left in the mountains returne to him againe.
So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eke our mynds, and former lives amend; The old yeares sinnes forepast let us eschew, And fly the faults with which we did offend.
Happie indeed and truly blest is hee Whose sinnes remitted and faults couered bee; To whome the Lord doth not jmpute his sinne, Whose single heart hath not deceipt therein.
As east from west is distant farr away, Soe farr doth Hee from us our sinnes remoue: As fathers, kindnes to their sonnes bewray, Soe God to them that feare Him, showes His loue.
Finallie king Offa (as it were for a meane to appease Gods wrath, which he doubted to be iustlie conceiued towards him for his sinnes [Sidenote: Polydor.
Sothly, sinnes been the weyes that leden folk to helle.
Thou ne shall nat eek make no lesinges in thy confessioun; for humilitee, per-aventure, to seyn that thou hast doon sinnes of whiche that thou were nevere gilty.
And everich of thise chief sinnes hath hise braunches and hise twigges, as shal be declared in hir chapitres folwinge.
And whan thou shalt be shriven to thy curat, telle him eek alle the sinnes that thou hast doon sin thou were last y-shriven; this is no wikked entente of divisioun of shrifte.
After Glotonye, thanne comth Lecherie; for thise two sinnes been so ny cosins, that ofte tyme they wol nat departe.
The derknesse of deeth' been the sinnes that the wrecched man hath doon, whiche that destourben him to see the face of god; right as doth a derk cloude bitwixe us and the sonne.
Certes, aboven alle sinnes thanne is this sinne most displesant to Crist, and most adversarie.
The thridde defaute is, that men fallen in venial sinnesafter hir baptisme, fro day to day.
Thise been the sinnes that comen of the tonge, that comen of Ire and of othere sinnes mo.
The Queene which found out the veniall sinnes of other, by mortall offences in herselfe, sent for her, and forbad her in any wyse not to speake vnto the bastard, except it were in the hall or within her owne Chamber.
But I who know Thy soule religious to her ends, where grow No sinnes by art or custome, boldly can Stile thee more than good Poet, a good man.
For sinnes blacke danger circles her, Who hath infection in her name.
According to Aubrey, "In the County of Hereford was an old Custome at funeralls to hire poor people, who were to take upon them all the sinnes of the party deceased.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinnes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
