 | 1819 - 896 pages
...— I confess I am quite surprised that this passage should be considered es having any difficulty. " Shall there be evil in a city and THE LORD hath not done itl" which Mr. Bellamy, renders " the Lord bath not requited it?" The e vil here intended, is evidently,... | |
 | Ebenezer Henderson - Iceland - 1819 - 634 pages
...extraordinary phenomena are designed to answer, and make the improvement ^rhich they so loudly suggest. " Shall there be evil in a city,! and the Lord hath not done it ?" Yet he is glorious in holiness, fearful in the manifestations of his attributes, and wonddpful... | |
 | Alexander Cruden - 1830 - 888 pages
...hand of God, and shall we not receive evil > /*«. 45. 7, 1 make peace and create evil Arnot 3. 6, Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it .' Thii it the evil of punishment, or peiial evil. It it alto taken for injuries <•> vrangt tfi-ne... | |
 | George Miller - Europe - 1820 - 634 pages
...communicate concerning his moral government, accords with its principles. The prophet Amos exclaims : shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Here we see a jealousy, not of the purity of the divine goodness, but of the sovereignty of the... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...whatsover be the nature of the action as from him, the sovereign hand of God is in them, and chief in them. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? And yet all evils, as he doth them, are both good and well done. Actions, whether voluntary or... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821 - 316 pages
...and have taken nothing at all ? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Surely, the Lord God. will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.... | |
 | Thomas Southwood Smith - 1822 - 464 pages
...create darkness : I make peace and create evil : I the Lord do alL these things." Isaiah xlv. 6. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" : Amos iii. 6. E 2 It is common among a certain class of theologians to make a distinction between... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1822 - 692 pages
...therefore also that holy thing which shall be horn of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke i. 35. Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos iii. 6. For the inhabitants of Maroth waited carefully for good but evil came down from the... | |
 | Brian Hill - Sermons, English - 1822 - 454 pages
...say, comes from the hand of God. Accordingly he saith by the mouth of his Prophet Amos, ch. iii. 6, " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it." And, again by Jeremiah, ch. xviii. 11, "Speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,... | |
 | Robert Calef - Witchcraft - 1823 - 324 pages
...his glory in the highest manner, and give it to a devil and a witch r Is it not he that hath said, Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? But if any are fond of their own notions, because some eminent men before now have asserted them,... | |
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... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? 
