jelin

Updated: May 2, 2025

Were these truths to be suppressed from regard for the feelings and interests of a prince who was all things to all men, an ally of the idolatrous Spaniard and of the Lutheran bane, a presbyterian at the Hague and a prelatist at Whiteball? He, like Jelin in ancient times, had doubtless so far done well that he had been the scourge of the idolatrous House of Ahab.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

But he, like Jelin, had not taken heed to walk in the divine law with his whole heart, but had tolerated and practised impieties differing only in degree from those of which he had declared himself the enemy.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3