 | Thomas Vincent - 1810 - 326 pages
...chastise 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... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 pages
...heart 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
...he 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... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 556 pages
...: " Ye thought evil against me ; but God," who had the ordering of the whole affair, " meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." And while 1 behold the wisdom and goodness of God, so conspicuous in this dispensation, I have no disposition... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 584 pages
...: " Ye thought evil against me ; but God," who had the ordering of the whole affair, " meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." And while I behold the wisdom and goodness of God, so conspicuous in this dispensation, I have no disposition... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...but God had a most wise and benevolent design in it. This Joseph believed and told his brethren so. "As for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant...pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." Had the whole story of this important event been related, without once mentioning the agency of God... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1812 - 334 pages
...God, who has so overruled this circumstance that I can now adopt the words of Joseph, my namesake, "He thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good...pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." ยง 6. Among the passengers from Hamburgh to Schwerin was a Jewish teacher, and a young Christian, an... | |
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 
