prævale

Example Sentences

• "In the tyme of William Rufus, the Pope attempted to drawe appeales to Rome but prævaled."
• "[…]; if peradventure that mai prævale and be proper for this daie and time wee liv in;[…]: which ſeem to mee to call for and to have already prævaled with, ſeveral faln Angels to mingl with them and becom their Coadjutors and Coagitators;[…]I cannot prævale with mi ſelf to becom a Counſeller to you to adviſe you, as yet, to drink of theſe Aquas vitæ cœleſtes:[…]"
• "And (to the honor of the chriſtians of the præſent age, and of our own nation, be it ſpoken!) there never was a time, or place, where chriſtianity was the prævaleing religion, that ſuch perſons could have had more liberty to do their utmoſt, to overthrow the truth and genuineneſſe of the ſacred writeings;[…]The power of truth was great, and did prævale.[…]; but that, in all other caſes, where there was prævaleing evidence, the argument would hold, though not ſo ſtrongly: that rational chriſtians apprehend that there is prævaleing, and abundant, evidence, of the truth of chriſtianity;[…]But, ſuppoſe a man hath been educated, in a country, where the true religion prævales;"