Under Tribute

“For the gracious heart, the law is no more constraining that wings are to a bird. But for someone who has no experience of grace, these standards bite and pinch, and some accommodation must be made for both morality and sin. Anne [Bradstreet] noted this problem clearly. ‘Some Christians do by their lusts and corruptions as the Israelites did by the Canaanites, not destroy them but put them under tribute’ (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 198).