It is for this reason that the elite were able to avoid division into ' godly ' and ' backward ' factions.
His was simply the most powerful in a chorus of godly voices calling for the toleration of false religions.
The godly among them would have found such ministers' preaching inadequate.
Consider that with tolerance and patience, we godly demons may breed a noble world in a few hundred generations or so.
Puritans, we are told, sought a godly society, not a pluralistic one.
The godly ruler was to be obeyed, but what of the ungodly ruler?
These interests were in turn inseparable from those of the godly party.
His sources are, primarily, published funeral sermons for godly women, and women's own spiritual autobiographies and accounts of their private devotions.