 | 1805 - 590 pages
...Joseph's brethren humbled t'.iemselves before him for their wicked devices against him, he replied, As for you, ye thought evil against me,' but God meant it unto good, to save much peopie alive as it is this day. Did God make the wicked conspiracy of Joseph's brethren against... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 504 pages
...would have perish* ed. Joseph was* sent intd Egypt for that end, as he observes, Gen. 1. 20. « But as for you ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to save much people alive." How often had this holy root, that had the future branch of righteousness,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 520 pages
...of God's ordering, and considered with respect to his views and aims which were good. Gen. 1. 20. " As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good. So the crucifixion of Christ, if we consider only those things which belong to the event as it proceeded... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...of God's ordering, and considered with respect to his views and aims which were good. Gen. 1. 20. " As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good. So the crucifixion of Christ, if we consider only those things which belong to the event as it proceeded... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1810 - 326 pages
...it for their sin ; howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so, &c. Gen. 1. 20, But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to save much people alive. Q. 6. What are the properties of God's providence ? A. 1. God's providence... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...power in his hand, he answered them, with a heart full of charity and love, " I am in the place of God. As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, Gen. 1. 19, 20. David, a man after God's own heart, fell into many fearful dangers, so that he was... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 pages
...there any \vay to answer this objection, and remove the difficulty, unless it be in the words of Joseph to his brethren ? "As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good :"* There was a direct and total opposition and contrariety between the will of God that this evil... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 pages
...of the enemy, but only to waste and destroy. In like manner Joseph replies to his brethren j " But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good." To obviate the present objection, a distinction has been made between the preceptive and decretive will... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 pages
...did me all the injury he could; and I think I may say of him what Joseph said to his brethren, " But, as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good," and so it proved. I very soon obtained another situation, and at the time appointed went to it; the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pages
...save your lives with a great deli" verance: so now it was not you who sent me " hither, but God."4 " As for you, ye thought "evil against me : but God meant it for good."0 " I atn sure, that the king of Egypt will not let you " go, no, not by a mighty hand."... | |
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 
