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John Bunyan was a Baptist and "preached what I felt and what I smartingly did feel, even under that which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment."

From Time Magazine Archive

He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee.

From Time Magazine Archive

I preached what I felt, what I smartingly did feel; even that under which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment.

From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James

But that as I said, is hard to be discerned by him that thus is sinking, and that has as he now smartingly feels, all God's waves, and his billows rolling over him.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

She knew only that she was thrillingly, smartingly alive.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold