 | John Howe - 1744 - 484 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 էջ
...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 էջ
...(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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | William Huntington - 1797 - 598 էջ
...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 good, but how... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1799 - 408 էջ
...have taken nothing at all ? Shall " a trumpet be blown in the city, and the *f people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in ** a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " The lion hath roared, Who will not fear ? " The Lord God hath fpoken, Who can but " prophecy ^'... | |
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...a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God ;" for though Satan may afflict, yet — " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" At, or soon after this period, mere professing Christendom will bo the subject of direful judgment:... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 էջ
...hand. He again inquires, as the proper application and inference to be deduced from this figure, ' Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord ' hath not done it *?' Affliction doth not fpring out of the ground, like thofe herbs and plants which grow without labour... | |
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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? 
