Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most profane and winnowed opinions

gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself

Always containing seeds of antinomianism, mysticism inevitably undermined that authority, but because the church's hegemony rested on mystery, mysticism could not altogether be prohibited. The common will to reach God was too strong, and the church was political before it was anything else.

She takes an extravagantly theatrical toke, before passing it onto the evil-looking gadge.