Judges 10:15-16
But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever is good in your sight. Only deliver us this day!”16. And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the LORD, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel. - Judges 10: 15-16
.... So that, if a man only abstains from doing evil in order to avoid punishment, Non pasces in cruce corvos, [Thou shalt not be hanged.], saith the Pagan; there, "thou hast thy reward." But even he will not allow such a harmless man as this to be so much as a good heathen. If, then, any man, from the same motive, viz., to avoid punishment, to avoid the loss of his friends, or his gain, or his reputation, should not only abstain from doing evil, but also do ever so much good; yea, and use all the means of grace; yet we could not with any propriety say, this man is even almost a Christian. If he has no better principle in his heart, he is only a hypocrite altogether.
- Dr. John Wesley
