 | Samuel Carr - Sermons, English - 1801 - 390 pages
...exalted him, and given him aname which is above every name - SERMON LV, ON ASH-WEDNESDAY. AMOS iii, 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? * - - 169 SERMON LVI, 2 TIM. iii. 16. Att scripture is given by inspiration of God 1 89 SERMON LVII.... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...are of his ordering, or are some way sent by him, we are plainly taught. It is asked, Amos iii. 6, " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" There are all sorts of evils in cities, moral as well as natural ; and yet this question implies... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...trumpet be blown, in the city, and the people not be afraid ? shall it not throw them into an alerm ? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it,] or, inflicted it ? are not all calamities to be ascribed to the hand of God, and -not to chance ? he... | |
 | Georg Joachim Zollikofer - Education - 1806 - 636 pages
...the good, to the forrows as well as to the joys of all things living : then may we juftly aflt ; mall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Shall there be a misfortune that is not dependent on him and conducted by him ? And mall there be an... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...brutish men, skilful to destroy. Ver. 32. Ch. xxiii. 28 — xxv. 7. — xxxi. 10, 11. Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Heathens delivered into the hands of Israel were, Og, Deut. iii. 2. Amorites, Jos. x. 12. — Ch.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...which they were sent for. III. 6 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 ? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, to summon the inhabitants to the walls, when as the people... | |
 | Nathan Elliot - Grace (Theology) - 1808 - 318 pages
...God goes to decay, the hand of his holy providence is to be acknowledged in such a dispensation. ' Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?' A visible decay of religion in any place, is a token of divine displeasure. It is always a just... | |
 | Classical philology - 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?... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...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.... | |
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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? 
