 | 1819 - 896 pages
...withstand all the artifices of the world, the flesh, and the devil ; and to say with Joshua of old, " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Instead of being Christ, opposition will almost in cvitably arise without... | |
 | 1822 - 554 pages
...Joshua, Elijah, and Paul. The valiant leader of Israel saw their propensity to idolatry, and said, " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Elijah on Mount Carmel, though opposed by the king and court, and a formidable... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 232 pages
...and in Egypt, and serve the Lord; or, if it seem unfit for you to serve the Lord, choose, yourselves, this day, whom ye will serve ; but, as for me, and my house, we will serve Jehovah." And they replied, " The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey."... | |
 | 1823 - 442 pages
...Joshua, Elijah, and Paul. The valiant leader of Israel saw their propensity to idolatry, and said, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Elijah, on Mount Carmel, though opposed by the king and court, and a formidable... | |
 | Lady - 1824 - 452 pages
...order to place their sinful weakness in a forcible light — " if it seem evil unto you to serye the Lord, choose ye this day whom ye will serve — but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord," — they cried out with one accord — " God forbid that we should forsake... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...world dared to differ from its God. " Choose ye," said he, by his conduct as well as by his words, "this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." In order to estimate the superiority with which true piety elevates a Christian,... | |
 | 1867 - 348 pages
...noble appeal of Joshua to Israel, just when he was about to give up his charge of them : ' Choose you this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.'* It was a day of great rejoicing when David removed the ark from the house... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...conducting the chosen tribes into Canaan, pressed the people to be decided, and said, " Choose you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Josh. xxiv. 15). Prayer is so interesting and needful a branch of religion,... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...approaching to God, and have no greater joy than to see their children walking in truth. Choose you this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my haute, we will serve the Lord. — 3 John, 4.; Josh. xxiv. 15.; Isa. Iviii. 2. EVENING. " I will both... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...not forced upon the people.* Josh. xxiv. 15. ' if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.' Psal. cv. 14. ' he suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he reproved kings... | |
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day, whom ye will serve .... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 
