...the worthy George Herbert, writing of " The Church Militant " during this period, observed uneasily " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." Despite the cruel malice of the bulk of the Merchant Adventurers, an appreciable minority remained...

...the celebrated English writer of religious works and poems, wrote in his poem, "The Church Militant:" "Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand," and no more prophetic words were ever spoken, for immediately thereafter persecution drove the Puritans...

...Puritans. 49. 17. Forsake their native country. See note on 48. 28. Cf. George Herbert's well known lines: Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. soldiers fighting in Holland, and he forced strict conformity upon the Church of the Merchant Adventurers...

...serve God in peace. As the poet Herbert himself wrote, bearing witness to the sort of people who went : Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." "And a nice mess they made of it," said old Mr. Hampden rather irrelevantly. On Friday Trevor came...

...religion and system of morality could be started. In the words of George Herbert : Religion stands tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand, When height of malice and prodigies, lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcraft, and distrusts, The marks of future bane shall fill...

...in that poem: Herbert, Church Militant, 190, 191 page." He proceeds to quote twenty-four lines, from Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand to But lends to us, shall be our desolation. From his reference to the paging, which is the same in...

...YOUNG. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. The Pulley. GEORGE HERBERT. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. The Church Militant. GEORGE HERBERT. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where...

...English poet, was expressing the feelings of an observer of the movements of his day, when he said : Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. And to apply the famous words of Stoughton in his Election Sermon, 1668, to other peoples than the...

...him his license to publish from the Lord Chancellor. "Religion stands on tip-toe in our land Readie to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcraft, and distrusts (The marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our...

...them it was found that two lines were not allowed to pass without remonstrance. They were these, — Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. It is believed that they were suggested to Herbert by his intimacy with Ferrar, who, * Anderson, iii....