earnestlier

Example Sentences

• "Of necessitye there∣fore, ought noble men be good. Both, for them selues and others: that they may trayne manye in theyr vertues, not vices. Of which sorte of Nobles, the lesse plenty there hath bene hither to, the earnestlier, ought al men, with theyr whole mighte and power ende∣uour: that these of our dayes encrease the number, and euen drowne theyr auncestours, so to become more fa∣mous, and acceptable to all men."
• "But the souldiers of Conon raised a mutiny against him, be∣cause* the kinges lieuetenaunts before time had ben wont to abridge and defraud them of their wages. Demaunding their duties so much the earnestlier, in that they toke vpon them to serue in so greate warres vnder so noble a chiefe∣taine."
• "Third∣lye wée allowe not fasting symplye as a woorke that maketh vs acceptable or pleasing to God of it selfe, but because it serueth vs to thrée good endes, the first to presse down our flesh, abating y• strēgth thereof ᵖ, touching many violent and euil affections ^q: the second, the earnest∣lier to make and dispose our praiers and spiritual thankes geuing to God ʳ."
• "The Romanes hauing thus obtained the domination of the seas, persisted in their warres, and earnest∣lier employed their busines, sailing in∣to the coastes of Segestana, deliuering the towne there from besieging, then setting from them, they wonne the ci∣tie Macella."
• "Foꝛ like as in Iſraell, the moꝛe that Idolatrie waxed ſtrong, and the whoter that the diſpleaſure of wicked Iezabell burned againſt the true pꝛophets of the Loꝛd, ſo much the earneſtlier did Elias pꝛeache, and ſo muche the ſtoutlyer did he pꝛocure the deſtruction of Baals pꝛéeſtes: […]"
• "Also (as I haue tolde you) the question is not whither God per∣fourme his iudgements swiftly: but yet doth hee giue vs some shewe of them euen in this life, too the ende wee should the earnestlier herken for the last day, whereas all things shall bee set agayne in their full state and per∣fection."