About some act

That has no relish of salvation in 't.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

You take my house when you do take the prop

That doth sustain my house; you take my life

When you do take the means whereby I live.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

With crosses, relics, crucifixes,

Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—

The tools of working our salvation

By mere mechanic operation.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.