 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 520 pages
...peace or prosperity, and create evil or adversity. I, the Lord, do all these things, Isaiah xlv. 7Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos iii. 6. Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground,... | |
 | Christian view - 1829 - 112 pages
...side of the picture. " I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do these things." (Tsa. xlv. 7.) " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos iii. 6.) God is the doer of all things ; and that a people should have come into this condition,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 616 pages
...bad. And there is nothing done by any of your afflicters, which is not governed by the will of God : " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iii. 6. " So the king hearkened not to the people ; for the cause was of God, that the Lord... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 618 pages
...bad. And there is nothing done by any of your afflicters, which is not governed by the will of God : " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. "So the king hearkened not to the people ; for the cause was of God, that the Lord might... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 500 pages
...nature of the action as from him, the sovereign hand of God is in them, and chief in them. Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? And yet all evils, as Ife doth them, are both good and well done. Actions, whether voluntary or casual,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...challengeth to himself. " I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all these things," Isa. xlv. 7. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. Why do I not thus argue with myself in my sufferings ? Is it not the hand of my good God... | |
 | James Fisher - Westminster Assembly - 1831 - 408 pages
...shall have tribulation." Q. 45. Is God the author of all outward afflictions? A. Yes: Amos iii. 6. " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?" Though men may indeed have an instrumental and sinful hand in their own troubles and distresses, Jer.... | |
 | James Douglas - Apologetics - 1831 - 264 pages
...election, though it refers to a moral law which constitutes a part of God's government of the world, " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?" God causes evil as the sun causes darkness, by withdrawing his light and his influence. The display... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 626 pages
...doing?' New translation thus. '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?' verse 6. In the first chapter of the Heb. iii. in the new translation it is said, ' Who being the brightness... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...the earth and have taken nothing ? Shall a trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?' Here was the true author of the judgments. He it was that had laid the snare. He that had as a lion... | |
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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? 
