For the Lorde doeth abhorre all that doo such things: and because of these abhominations, the Lord thy God hath cast them out before thée.
Yea feare if it be vnmeasurable maketh vs to abhorre those thinges, which otherwise should be comfortable vnto vs.
All these I know abhorre the plough, and are enemies to the State; who yet (I confesse) in their high talke do justify tillage and will be ready no doubt to reforme the decay thereof with spade and pickaxe.
They abhorre the names of Monkes, Friars, Chanons, Nounes, etc.
God can not be truly worshipped with out faithe, for if faithe be not in the worshippe that is done vnto god / that worshippe the lorde dothe abhorre / as the Prophet Esaie dothe witnes.
The Mariners in time past haue eaten of them, but since they haue seene them eate men their stomacks abhorre them.
In whiche honouris and offices, yf man or angell presume to intruse thame selfis, we utterlie detest and abhorre thame, as blasphemous to oure Soverane and Supreame Governour, Christ Jesus.
I verely beleve the same, and doabhorre and utterly refuis all Doctrine alleged necessary to Salvatioun, that is not expressedly conteined in the same.
I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me Iago.
But dead rather: For Nature doth abhorre to make his bed With the defunct, or sleepe vpon the dead.
No, nor I neither, but most wonderful, that she should so dote on Signior Benedicke, whom shee hath in all outward behauiours seemed euer to abhorre Bene.
We hate alike: Not Affricke ownes a Serpent I abhorre More then thy Fame and Enuy: Fix thy foot Mar.
If euer I did dream Of such a matter, abhorre me Rodo.
Away with me, all you whose soules abhorre Th' vncleanly sauours of a Slaughter-house, For I am stifled with this smell of sinne Big.
I may perceiue These Cardinals trifle with me: I abhorre This dilatory sloth, and trickes of Rome.
This night's the time That I should do what I abhorre to name, Or else thou diest to morrow Clau.
Ye se also lykewyse that no man can abyde to be called thefe, and yet all men do not abhorre the thynge so greatly.
And yf an euyll bysshop be a thefe and a robber, then we shulde not so greatly abhorre and hate the name as the thynge.
Shall wee then abhorre that in our selues which we admire and hold to be so excellent in others?
Abhorre those Epicures, whose loose life hath made religion lothsome to your eares: and when they sooth you with tearmes of Mastership, remember Robert Greene, whome they haue so often flattered, perishes now for want of comfort.
Sidenote: Forren princes not without causeabhorre to heare of the shamefull murther of king Richard.
No sismatick, reduc'd to the true faith, Can more abhorre the Error he has left Than I do mine.
Drink is a vice I am as little given to as another man, for I doeabhorre it in my selfe.
When this hatered hath once setteled in the tender myndes, yea when they be old they abhorre studye.
He wyll therfore be taught nothyng soner then vertue, and abhorrefrom nothynge sooner then folyshenesse, if so be the diligence of the parentes wyll incontinent set aworke the nature whyle it is emty.
THat thynge is now entreated while fortune is fauourable vnto you / that we ought moost to abhorre / and you sure- ly ought aboue all thynges to desyre / that is to haue peace.
Then hee sent for the Indians, and mooued them to conformitie with the Grecians; but found that they did farre more abhorre to burne their dead, then the Grecians did to eate them.
In the beginning of his reigne he was esteemed a most accomplished Prince; and seemed not so much of power to bridle himselfe from vice, as naturally disposed to abhorre it.
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