 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...: therefore 1 will punish you for all your iniquities. Shall a trumpet be blown in the dty, and the people not be afraid ? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it ? Surely, the Lou a GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.... | |
 | William Ettrick - 1810 - 608 pages
...reasons to us mysterious, it ts here called thej»jw/rrir of God, in the sense of Amos, iii, 6, — s' Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" it is to be the means of opentng the wide and tremendous gulph of TOPHET,* more like, from its vast... | |
 | 1811 - 560 pages
...comment, for the passage is as objectionable, as it is in the present Bible translation, which says, " SHALL THERE BE EVIL IN A CITY, AND THE LORD HATH NOT DONE IT ?" While this gentleman would have it, SHALL A CALAMITY BEFAL A CITY, WHICH JEHOVAH HATH NOT INFLICTED?... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 544 pages
...God on account of what he will do for us 505 WARNINGS. CQCXLIII. GOO'S VOICE TQ SIXNEKS. Amos iii. 8. The lion hath roared; who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken; who can but frofhesy? rTPHERE is not any thing more strange and unreasonJ[ able than that utter... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...from being a prey to the lion of the bottomless pit, by faith in the lion of heaven, which is God : " The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy :" Christ is here called the root of David ; because David derived his... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...a cross one ? It is the finger of God, though we see a creature's whole hand in it, Amos iii. 6. ' Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?' Now,.seeing they are his works, they ought to be observed. 2. Because they are great works, Psal.... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...the evil, and his hand, and his heart, and his counsel, are to be seen and submissively acknowledged. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? No evil can come to a city, a family, or person, without the divine agency. God sometimes brings natural... | |
 | John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil ? 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 ? I form the light, and create darkness : 1 make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.... | |
 | 1832 - 644 pages
...causes, and view it as a judgment from the Almighty for the sins of which we, as a nation, are guilty. " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?" The improvement that may and ought to be made is of a twofold nature. It may be considered as a warning... | |
 | W. Ettrick - 1814 - 584 pages
...reasons to us mysterious, it is here called the mystery of God, in the sense of Amos, iii, 6, — «* Shall there be evil in a city, and the "Lord hath not done it i" ' 160 -.it is to be the means of opening the wide and tremendous gulph of TOPHET,* more like, from... | |
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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? 
