 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1832 - 264 pages
...apologise for the oppressors, and fix the standard of policy higher than that of duty : ' Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! which justify... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...4. r Rom. vi. 22. DCCCLXV. THE SINFULNESS OF CONFOUNDING GOOD AND EVIL. Isaiah v. 20. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. THAT man in his present state is a corrupt and sinful creature, is too plain to be denied:... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1833 - 572 pages
...you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear:" Isa. lix, 1, 2. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe G 2 unto... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1833 - 306 pages
...purposes of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and be fulfilled, that we may know them ! 20 Woe to them, that call evil good, and good evil, That put darkness...put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 21 Woe to them, that are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own conceit! 23 Woe to them, that are... | |
 | 1833 - 652 pages
...endeavouring to diminish their impressions of the danger with which it is attended. " Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Now this is the very course by which the wicked at first delude themselves, and then deceive... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 pages
...prosecuted " in the will of the creature" and as a system of will worship and idolatry ! " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight." Is. 5:20,21.... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 466 pages
..." to observe how the foolish ones swallow the bait, and while we are playing fast * " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter !" Isaiah v. HO. and loose with them in the stream, with our hooks in their mouths, to hear... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...establishment would be productive of nothing but ill. To them the words of a prophet truly apply: Wo unto you ' that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness...darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.' They want to persuade the world that, for the unspeakable guilt and misery superinduced by... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1836 - 326 pages
...for God be admonished by it ! A writmg like that prophetic one lies at their very door. It begins, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and pure in their own sight ! " And again, "... | |
 | John Crook (of Lyon's inn.) - 1836 - 114 pages
...extracted from "The Religious Creed of the New System," by Abram Combe, as above, are admirable. VIII. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil :...darkness : that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!'' — (Isaiah v. 20.) " Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."—... | |
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; That put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
