Isaiah 16:1-5
Send them forth, hugging the earth like reptiles, from Sela across the desert, to the mount of daughter Zion. 2. Like flushed birds, like scattered nestlings, Are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. 3. Offer counsel, take their part; at high noon make your shade like the night; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitives. 4. Let the outcasts of Moab live with you, be their shelter from the destroyer. When there is an end to the oppressor, when destruction has ceased, and the marauders have vanished from the land, 5. A throne shall be set up in mercy, and on it shall sit in fidelity, in David’s tent, A judge upholding right, prompt to do justice. - Isaiah 16: 1-5
.... 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
