 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 pages
...far as that world dared to differ from its God. Choose ye, said he, by his conduct as well as words, this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord : Joshua, xxiv, 15. But, in order to estimate the superiority with which true... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...and turn aside to other gods, yet would not he. If it seem evil for you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we mil serve the Lord. In like manner, the traveller towards Zion is ready to say, It would give me... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...not forced upon the people.3 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 for... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...Abraham that which he hath spoken of him."J Again, as another good man said to his people, " Choose you this day whom ye will serve ; But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."§ Now, both of these were punctual and precise men in the performance of every... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pages
...Noble was the resolution of Joshua, ' If it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose ye this [OcT. day, whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord ! Fifthly ; keep up a daily intercourse with God. You are to be strong in the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 620 pages
...hath been your god), and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem evil to 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 ;" Josh, xxiv. 14. And if you say as they, " God forbid that we should forsake... | |
 | 1830 - 586 pages
...the Lord's side. Joshua's resolution should, in such a case, be our model. "As for you, choose you this day whom ye will •serve.— but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." What would we think of the principle, that a lime of public dissention. disloyalty... | |
 | John Miller - 1830 - 544 pages
...continually11." And Joshua we hear expressly saying to the assembled tribes of Israel, " Choose you this day whom ye " will serve ; ..... but as for me and my house, " we will serve the Lord1." I think we do not need positive commands for any practice that shall be... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...and serve ye the Lord ; and if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." And to the same purpose the Apostle to the Gentiles said, " We then are ambassadors for Christ, as though... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 466 pages
...upon Abraham the things that he hath spoken of him." And the latter, we read, said, Josh. xxiv. 15. "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve — but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." We declare, that we esteem it a duty incumbent on us to pray with and for,... | |
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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. 
