| Simon Patrick (bp. of Ely.) - 1704 - 130 pages
...gathered from the Third Chapter of his Prophecy, V. 6. Shall a trumpet be blown in the Ctty, and the People not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LO^J) hath not done it ? As much as if he had faid, Do not People ufe to rife and run to their Arms,... | |
| John Howe - 1744 - 484 pages
...people, who had fo long born his name ; and with a city, wherein he had fo long dwelt ! And ye.t,Jhall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?( Are not we to acknowledge his own doing in the cafe ? He is faid to do, whatfoever creatures do... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1764 - 200 pages
...can do Nothing bad. Tho' God cannot caufe Sin, yet. he wifely permits it to happen as a Punifnment. * Shall there be Evil in a City, and the Lord hath not done it (q)?' Was not ' Chrift delivered by the determinate (Jounfel and Foreknowledge of God,' when he was... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1776 - 582 pages
...blown in the day, and the people " not be afraid ?" Amos iii. 6. Yes, we fee there are fuch people. " The lion hath roared, who will not fear ? the Lord " God hath ipoken, who can but prophefy ?" verf. 8. Why, fome will fleep full found amidft all the roarings of... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 pages
...the " mouth of the moft high, proceeded) not " evil and good;" And Amos iii. 6. " Shall " there '' there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath '* not done it ?" Job alfo is made to exprefs the fame fentiment, when he fays, Job i. 21. : The Lord gave, and the... | |
| James Fisher - 1792 - 560 pages
...(hall have tribulation. (^ 41;. Is God ths author of all outward afflictions ? A. Yes; Ariioi iii. 6. Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ? Though men may indeed have an inftrumental and finful hand in their own troubles and diftrefles,... | |
| James Williamson - 1793 - 264 pages
...produced without his will and concurrence. / make peace, fays be, and I create evil. (If. vii. 14.) Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? (Am. iii. 6.) But the origin of moral evil is beft attributed to the perverfe abufe of free will;... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 pages
...commanded it not. Out of the mouth of the " moft high, proceedeth not evil and good ; And Amos iii. 6. " Shall there be evil in a city, and " the Lord hath not done it ? Job alfo is made to exprefs the fame fendment, when he fays, Job. I. 2i. " The Lord gave, and the... | |
| David Austin - 1796 - 542 pages
...the threatening of a man or angel, you might defy his menaces ; but the Lion of the tribe of Judah hath roared, who •will not fear ? — The Lord God hath fpoken, who can but prophecy ! ' III. The Ifraelites were as liable to the threatened deftruction as the Egyptians, as to any thing... | |
| William Huntington - 1797 - 598 pages
...believed that the hand of God was in it ; that he gave it to us, and that he now took it away from us. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iii. 6. I had moreover a perfuafion that, according to God's word, it would work together for... | |
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