a. (UN-1 7.)
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 14. How unscriptural … do they seem to many … Christians?
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 7. Unwritten Traditions, inhumane inventions, unscriptural institutions.
1719. Waterland, Eight Serm. Div. Christ, iii. 103. That is as manifestly unscriptural, false, and groundless, as either Socinian or Arian.
1782. Priestley, Corrupt. Chr., II. VII. 104. Wickliffe … saw nothing unscriptural in extreme unction.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl., 311. The View or Scheme … I believe to be altogether unscriptural.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 112. Prelacy was abhorred … both as an unscriptural and as a foreign institution.
Hence Unscripturally adv., -alness.
1677. W. Hughes, Man of Sin, III. ii. 27. Besides the unscripturalness of such visits.
1824. D. Russell, Covenants (1843), 182. Some have spoken very … unscripturally of the good works and holy tempers of believers.
1868. Miall, Congregationalism in Yorks., 15. Cartwright had openly proclaimed … the unscripturalness of the Anglican hierarchy.
