This time relation between odiousness and instability in fashions affords ground for the inference that the more rapidly the styles succeed and displace one another, the more offensive they are to sound taste.
The process of developing an aesthetic nausea takes more or less time; the length of time required in any given case being inversely as the degree of intrinsic odiousness of the style in question.
Every fall that you see of others doth call you to see the odiousness of sin (as you will do when you see a drunkard spewing, or a thief at the whipping-post).
If religious persons apprehended the odiousness of this as much as they do of swearing, drunkenness, fornication, &c.
Tell them of the odiousness of all these sins, and teach them such texts as most expressly condemn them; and never pass it by or make light of it, when you find them guilty.
Therefore sure there is an intrinsical evil and odiousness in a lie.
Avoid all wanton stage-plays and dancings, which either cover the odiousness of lust, or produce temptations to it.
Keep a continual apprehension of the danger and odiousness of sinful passions, by knowing how full they are of the spawn of many other sins.
One sight of heaven or hell, to awaken their reason and sleepy consciences, would be the best remedy to convince them of the odiousness and danger of this sin.
When you have found out where it is, and wherein it doth consist, find out the malignity and odiousness of it.
Were we but duly sensible of the worth of love, and the odiousness and malignity that is in the want of it, it would keep us from being quiet in the daily neglect of it, and would quicken us to seek it, and to stir it up.
These two great lights will show the odiousness of darkness.
Another great temptation is, by hiding from men the intrinsic evil and odiousness of sin.
Converse with penitent, humbled souls, that have seen the odiousness of sin, and the wickedness and deceitfulness of the heart, and can tell you by their own feeling what cause of humiliation is still before you.
Look on the lamentable effects of pride about you in the world, and that will help you to see the odiousness and pernicious nature of it.
Danger thou mayest see in sin before, butodiousness thou canst not.
Labour to see theodiousness and unprofitableness thereof, which thou mayest do by the true knowledge of the excellent nature of the holiness of God.
For until thou seest a beauty in holiness, thou canst not see odiousness in sin and iniquity.
Yea, I have endeavoured to set forth something of the greatness of his sorrows, the odiousness of sin, the nature of justice, and the love of Christ.
The members of the Board were mad enough not to see, not merely the odiousness of the course, but the aggravatedodiousness of hurry.
The odiousness of unbelief is manifest by this, yea, also the unreasonableness thereof.
