 | George Bull - Sermons, English - 1844 - 660 pages
...affliction, that befals us, happens to us. This is the plain doctrine of God Himself, by His Prophet Amos*; " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" No, certainly. God is the great Disposer of all the evils of affliction that happen to us. This consideration... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1845 - 482 pages
...prophet Amos of old testifies, Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid 1 Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1847 - 876 pages
...Since then we must all recognize in this afflictive dispensation the hand of the Almighty — "for shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" — it must become us all to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. On this point all Christians... | |
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 672 pages
...controversy with the inhabitants of the land;" or the herdman Amos to enter into our Senate, and inquire, " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " there would not be wanting proud peers and profane plebeians, who would brand them as fanatics,... | |
 | National fast - 1847 - 204 pages
...neither will He do evil." What ! " Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ; " (Amos iii. 6.) Such evil, therefore, we trace to His divine displeasure. " Shall I not visit for... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Apologetics - 1848 - 488 pages
...highest good which is God, can be the cause of evil. "An objector will say he can, for it is written, shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? Again, the effect of a second cause is to be reduced to its first cause ; as is proved above. If... | |
 | Christian life - 1848 - 600 pages
...of alarm, were blown in the city, would not the people fear ? but no warning suffices to arouse you. Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? You know all things are under his rule, and yet you determinately shut your eyes, and will not see... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1848 - 608 pages
...of alarm, were blown in the city, would not the people fear 1 but no warning suffices to arouse you. Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? You know all things are under his rule, and yet you determinately shut your eyes, and will not see... | |
 | William Wayte Andrew - 1849 - 942 pages
...Its OBJECT. I. THE WARNING. " Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" When on the great last day of the world, the day of judgment, the last trump shall sound (for the trumpet,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 542 pages
...(Lam. iii. 38.) And again, " Shall the trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" — (Amos iii. 6.) Further, Matt, xviii. 7 — "Wo unto the world because of offences! for it must... | |
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Shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? 
