But for some members of the godly the oath became a charter for challenges to the church and its prayer book.
While his will confirms his godly identity, his wife's experience provides more relevant experience for his likely attitude as a grand juror.
They must internalize that subjection and refer it to the godly magistrate, and only the godly magistrate.
There were, however, movements towards a greater sense of self in these godly books.
Other prominent members of the godly community were apparently subjected to similar tactics.
Yet it is a much bigger thing to live among the pious, giving them a godly example to follow and to save the others thereby.
Secular government was not equipped to produce the godly society to which the previous generation of leaders had aspired.
His sources are, primarily, published funeral sermons for godly women, and women's own spiritual autobiographies and accounts of their private devotions.
