| 1828 - 546 pages
...volume by the Warden of New College. The text considered is the well-known passage, Isaiah v. 20. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." This discourse contains the following observations — observations extremely important to... | |
| Henry Walter - 1828 - 524 pages
...ignorant, or regardless, of the aweful tlm-atening of GOD against, those, who thus pervert judgment.— Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter — their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they... | |
| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 pages
...flattering titles to any man, and withstood even Peter to the face, when he was Ui be blamed. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa. v. 20. 2. Those who boast of superior wisdom, are often chargeable with the greatest... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1828 - 380 pages
...if we falsify them, and break their force upon our own minds, or the minds of others. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." — " As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate... | |
| 1828 - 1042 pages
...et the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 20 II Wo unto them lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of...thousand, but they laid not their hands on the pre bitter ! 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Wo unto... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear :" Isa. lix, 1, 2. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...mingle strong drink, which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him ! Therefore, as the fire devoureth... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...doctrines concerning the factitious origin of moral distinctions as have been now under our review ? " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." f SECTION II. Of the agri-cable and disagreeable Emotions arising from the Perception of what... | |
| 1829 - 760 pages
...quarter, to liberate their souls from the thraldom thus imposed. But, if the voice of God has said, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ;" it, by implication, pronounces them blessed, who say to the imprisoned spirit, ' Go free;'... | |
| 1830 - 448 pages
...testimony, if they walk not according to this rule, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. viii. 20. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa. v. 20. "Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 638 pages
...abhor him1." And if this be done as a worship of God, you may hence judge how acceptable it will be: " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter"'." To make people believe that holiness is but hypocrisy, or a needless thing, or that the... | |
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