 | Abiel Abbot - 1831 - 400 pages
...itself to the heart. It finds you habitually prepared for resistance, and flees from you. Uniformly " abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good." You may here be ready to imagine, that this stern and unshaken decision and adherence to virtue may... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 pages
...death is the end of all men ;" grant us therefore grace to lay it to heart, to despise the world, " to abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good; to delight in thy word, to study thy will, to observe thy law, and to take all possible care to promote... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...fear, lest the next sin he commits should fill up his measure, and seal his eternal doom ! O let us " abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good." Bom. xii. 9. Let us " love the commandments," yea, all the commandments of our God ; not pretending... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 pages
...with Jesus Christ, and him crucified; showed us the difference between good and evil, that we might abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good; reasoned with us many a time about our souls and another world ; set before us life and death, the... | |
 | 1834 - 588 pages
...constitution as should perpetually determine it, when acting most freely according to its nature, to abhor that which is evil and cleave to that which is good, or by exerting upon it such a supernatural influence as should constantly preserve it from falling.... | |
 | Henry Venn, John Venn - 1834 - 680 pages
...Father's kingdom. He, and Mr. Burnet of Elland, have a steadiness in them, surprising. They are men who ' abhor that which is evil,' and ' cleave to that which is good.' . Mr. Fletcher, a genius, and a man of fire — all on the stretch to do good — to lose not a day,... | |
 | Menno Simons - 1835 - 506 pages
...zeal for God, count all things but dross, tlf.it with Paul, you mny win Christ; according toscripture abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good; have washed your robes in the blood of the Lamb, (Phil, 3 ; Kom. 12; Rev. 7.) and conform in all your... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...solitudes of the sea, away from all human influences and so-called " means of grace," has been led to " abhor that which is evil," and " cleave to that which is good." "The sea is His, and He made it," therefore it is fitting that God's name should be honoured upon the... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1836 - 380 pages
...as scarlet, may they be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, may they be as wool. May we abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good. May we be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 234 pages
...are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, to abhor that which is evil and cleave to that which is good ?" Believe me, however, this is no fancy picture. The original may be found in the world every day.... | |
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