 | John Abernethy - 1757 - 436 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 sider
...his heart " think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut " off nations, not a few."8 " Shall there be evil in " the city, and the LORD hath not done it?"-3 " Who " worketh all after the counsel of his own will."* In every -part of Scripture, the purpose,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 446 sider
...DIVERSIONS. AMOS III. 6. " Shall the Trumpet be Mown in the City, and the People not be afraid? Shall there be evil in the City, and the .Lord hath not done it ?" IT is well if there are not too many here, who are nearly concerned in these words of the Prophet... | |
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Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it? 
