Lo, Israel, once that flourish'd like the vine, Is barren laid; the beautiful increase Is wholly blent, and irreligious zeal Encampeth there where virtue was enthron'd: Alas, the while the widow wants relief, The fatherless is wrong'd by naked need, Devotion sleeps in cinders of contempt, Hypocrisy infects the holy priest!
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

The state of the heathen world is becoming better known, and the sympathy of British Christians has been awakened, in zealous endeavours to evangelize and soothe its sorrows.
— from The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. by John West