Supererogations

Word SUPEREROGATIONS
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N. One who consistently exceeds expectations, one who does more than duty requires; as in supererogate , adv., or one who is supererogative, adv.: see also supererogative, supererogated, supererogating Urban Dictionary

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This is politically supported by a pretended infallibility; auricular confession, founded upon the priest's power to forgive sins; indulgences; pretended relics; penance; strings of beads for Ave-Marys and pater-nosters; celibacy; merits and works of supererogations; restrictions; monkish austerities; religious vows and orders; palms; candles; decorated images; holy water; christening of bells; hallowed flowers and branches; agnus dei; oblations; consecrations, &c., &c. ❋ John Foxe (N/A)

But to a much larger number of persons -- and one dares say to all true Pantagruelists -- these interpretations are either things that the Master himself would have delighted to satirise, and would have satirised unsurpassably, or, at best, mere superfluities and supererogations. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

They should do well to prove their doctrines of perfection by instance and example; and to demonstrate that a thing may be done, by shewing that actually it has been done: but if they cannot, they should first acquit themselves in point of duty, before they flourish it with their supererogations; and think of paying their debts, before they go about to purchase. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Papists relying upon their indulgences, their saints merits and supererogations, and such other fopperies, as can never settle, nor indeed so much as reach, the conscience; and much less recommend it to that Judge, who is not to be flammed off with words, and phrases, and names, though taken out of the scripture itself. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

It would be long enough before we should hear a person, endued with this evangelical quality, to talk of his merits and his supererogations, of his fulfilling and even outdoing the law: for these are whimsies, framed and minted in the heads of those, whose hearts never served them to be experimentally pious. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

The character of Iago is one of the supererogations of Shakespeare's genius. ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

For as soon as we concede to the adversaries that works merit eternal life, they spin from this concession the awkward teaching that we are able to keep the Law of God, that we are not in need of mercy, that we are righteous before God, that is, accepted with God by our works, not for the sake of Christ, that we can also do works of supererogations namely, more than the Law requires. ❋ Philipp Melanchthon (1528)

Not to insist on the ways of atonement and expiation which the Gentiles had pitched on; nor on the many ways and inventions — by works satisfactory of their own, supererogations of others, indulgences, and purgatory in the close — that the Papists have found out for this end and purpose; it is, I say, proper to all convinced persons, as above, to seek for a righteousness, partly by an endeavour to satisfy for what is past, and partly by hoping after general mercy. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

As for the instances of the free-will offerings, Ames hath answered sufficiently, (824) “that though the particulars were not, nor could not be, determined by a distinct rule in general, yet they were determined by the circumstances, as our divines are wont to answer the Papists about their vows, councils, supererogations _not by a general law, but by concurrence of circumstances. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

[The new] person on the auto-body [work] is [way better] than I expected. He is a real supererogator. ❋ Atlas Mason (2017)

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