 | John Abernethy - 1757 - 436 pages
...light and create darknefs ; I make peace and create evil ; I the Lord do all thefe things. Another, -j* Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it? In the iO4th Pfaliji, where the argument of the divine beneficence is defignedly treated, and the plenitude... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1758 - 276 pages
...will *. The Lord is thy Keeper, the Lord is thy Defence upon thy right Hand §. And on the contrary, Shall there be Evil in the City, and the Lord hath not. done it -J* ? •• • Frequently indeed we perceive no Marks of the Interpolation of God in what paries.... | |
 | Theophilus Lobb - 1761 - 330 pages
...Creatures, the Things in which Nations, Cities, and Families, and particular Perfons are concerned. Shall there be Evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it., it is faid, jtmos iii. 6. FAMINES, and PESTILENCES, and EAR.THQJJAK.ES are tremendous Judgments of... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1793 - 640 pages
...produce the one, more than the other ? In this view, we may turn to the words of the prophet Amos. " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Here evil is mentioned without reft riction, confining it to natural evil : But if it be fuppofed... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pages
...keeping a good confcience in an evil time : I iuy, it may be the Lord hath bidden ; yea, " Is there evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Is there evil in the church, and the Lord hath not done it ? No, no : Well, what of that ? This does not... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 618 pages
...Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he will reveal it to his servants the prophets." "Is there evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Is the trumpet blown, and the voice not heard ? Doth the lion roar, and the people tiot be afraid ? The... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
..." Who is he that saith, and it cometh to •pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?" Lam. lii. 37. " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. What but the consideration and belief of this struck holy David dumb before God when under... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1804 - 442 pages
...iii. 38. He formeth light and createth darkness ; fie maketh peace, and createth evil, Isa; xlv. 7- Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos. iii. 6. Religion tells you, that it' God afflict you it is lor your own advantage ; it is,... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 416 pages
...b!;.sj.luinyto suppose. But when I have reasoned thus with some,, they have brought these words of Scripune ; " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord. hath not done it ?" Amos iii. 6. To which I answer, Non maliun peccatum, scd malapcena : Not the evil of sin, but the... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...without the Providence of God. As for the evil of Punishment or Suffering, it is clear, Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? But, for the evil of Sin, it is not effectively from God ; yet doth he, by his Providence, for most... | |
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Shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? 
