It may well be expected that nothing but savoury, wise, and holy, come from your mouths; and nothing unbeseeming wisdom and godliness, be seen in your lives.
And 'tis proper to them both, and I hope not unbeseeming me, who am by my profession a divine, and by mine inclination a physician.
If a recreation be profane, as making sport of holy things, it is a mocking of God, and a villany unbeseeming any of his creatures, and laying them open to his heaviest vengeance.
A rude, unreverent noise is unbeseeming an ambassador of Christ.
Whoever be the instruments, the replying of clay to the Potter, the Former of all, is unbeseeming the nothing-creature.
Were not the customs of the pagans to be held unbeseeming for Christians, as well as the customs of the Jews?
It were a foolish and ridiculous counsel, unbeseeming the poor wisdom of man, to purpose the glorifying of man whom he had not yet determined to create.
Self-seeking in creatures is a monstrous and incongruous thing; it is as absurd, and unbeseeming a creature, to seek its own glory, as to attribute to itself its own being.
But, (5) Insobriety becomes not a reasonable soul and is very unbeseeming a Christian, even so is it to every man.
Ye that are cleansed by this blood, O think howunbeseeming it is to you to defile yourselves again with those things ye are cleansed from!
It is not only unbeseeming a Christian, to be led with passions and lusts, but it is below a man, if men were not now through sin below beasts.
There are many Elders that are very ignorant, and fiter rather to be examined, then to examine; and that propound unbeseeming and absurd questions.
The former, who was grave and saturnine in every thing he did, only hoped that all had been to Lord Glenvarloch's mind, and that he had not left them on account of any unbeseeming negligence on their part.
