unregenerate

But this partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman.

Reflections on Gandhi 1949

But this partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman.

Collected Essays 1900

In this passage, we see the state of the unregenerate, which is ignorance.

WordPress.com News 2009

This ought not to be passed over without some animadversion; because this notion about the word "unregenerate" which many persons have previously formed, is no small cause why they think they must reject the opinion, which declares that this passage of

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

Litany; and Wednesday evening lectures are to her what excursions for ice-cream or soda-water are to "unregenerate" girls.

The end of an era, 1899

Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being

Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

Christ, only God such as unregenerate man would have him!

What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

Christ, only God such as unregenerate man would have him!

What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864

I prefer "unregenerate" to Riesman's implicit "immature" ( "As we shall see, not all other-directed people are inside-dopesters, but perhaps, for the lack of a more mature form of their type, many of them aspire to be" [p. 200]) in the light of the subsequent hijacking of

AFF Doublethink Online 2009

Let the word "unregenerate" be taken for a man who is now in the act of the new birth, though he be not yet actually born again; let "the pleasure" which God feels be taken for an initial act; let the impulsive cause be understood to refer to the final reception of the sinner into favour; and let secondary, subsequent, cooperating and entering grace be substituted for "saving grace;" and it will instantly be manifest, that we speak what is right when we say: "Serious sorrow on account of sin is so far pleasing to God, that by it, according to the multitude of his mercies, he is moved to bestow grace on a man who is a sinner."

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956