...alone can prevent their misery hereafter. Justly therefore doth the Prophet denounce : Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil : that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight. Therefore,...

...his duty. But all these things must be judged over again, by him that hath denounced a " woe to them that call evil good and good evil ; that put darkness for light and light for darkness6." " He that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, people shall curse him, nations...

...for there may be apparent blossoms and fruit where the root is rottenness (see Isa. v, 20 — 2i). " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Woe unto them...

...devices and works; by which captivity none but the wicked are punished : as Isaiah saith, v. 20, " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." — Here, mark, that the first destruction of the ungodly is blindness : as we have it in...

...devices and works ; by which captivity none but the wicked are punished : as Isaiah saith, v. 20, " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." — -Here, mark, that the first destruction of the ungodly is blindness : as we have it in...

...read the words, without perceiving the importance of the subject which now occupies our attention. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for siveet, and sweet for bitter. . . . Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness...

...to such times the words of the Holy Ghost, as spoken by the Prophet, are peculiarly applicable ; " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil,...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter," (Is. v. 20.) Ought we not rather to examine ourselves? — Is there not at the present day...

...soul be without knowledge, it is not good," Prov. xix. 2. There is a woe pronounced against those " that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter," Isa. v. 20. It is one great and main design of the teachings and instructions of the prophets...

...or branches of the same sentence, and directs us to rest while we can tell three ; as, Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. And especially where there is a sort of opposition between the one and the other ; as, And...

...generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. Prov. xxx. 12. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness j that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Isaiah^ v. 20. . , , . .. , , . ,...