One action and one precept were not employed to illustrate and restrict the meaning of another.

Hence arose a thousand scruples to which he had hitherto been a stranger.

He was alternately agitated by fear and by ecstacy.

He imagined himself beset by the snares of a spiritual foe, and that his security lay in ceaseless watchfulness and prayer.
His morals, which had never been loose, were now modelled by a stricter standard.

The empire of religious duty extended itself to his looks, gestures, and phrases.