For in this manner , instead of expiating other sins by the exercise of religion , I say , in offering thus unto god almighty such a worship as we esteem to be displeasing unto him , we add unto the number of our other sins those also of hypocrisy and contempt of his divine majesty .
That , finally , to this poor pilgrim , on his dreary and desert path , faint , sick , miserable , there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy , a new life , and a true one , in exchange for the heavy doom which he was now expiating .
