 | Samuel Hopkins - 1852 - 834 pages
...produce the one more than the other? In this view, we may turn to the words of the prophet Amos : " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " Here evil is mentioned without restriction, confining it to natural evil. But if it be supposed... | |
 | John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...be ready to run out against the heathen, but that scripture would quiet me again, Amos 3 : 6, — " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " The Lord help me to make a right improvement of his word, that I might learn that great lesson,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pages
...about by our own faults or follies, or by the malice or mistakes of others; still they are from God. " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" " 1, the Lord, create good; I, the Lord, create evil." While God is in no case the author of sin,... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Captivity - 1852 - 402 pages
...should be ready to run out against the heathen, but that scripture would quiet me again, Amos 3 : 6, — there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " The Lord help me to make a right improvement of his word, that I might learn that great lesson,... | |
 | 1853 - 606 pages
...Afflietions spring not ont of theilnst ;" the Lord has a sovereign control over them, and a hand in them. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? Is there a trial that is not regnlated by Him ? impossible " Twas from his hand thy trials name, His hand... | |
 | 1853 - 428 pages
...subject of keen discussion in the senateouse. They are meant for other and wider ends than these. " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " We own his hand in the pestilence and the famine, and why not in these disasters which are falling... | |
 | Mary White Rowlandson - Indian captivities - 1853 - 86 pages
...should be ready to run out against the heathen, but that scripture would quiet me again, Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? The Lord help me to make a right improvement of 'his Word, and that I might learn that great lesson,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Apologetics - 1853 - 498 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... | |
 | Elias De La Roche Rendell - Bible - 1853 - 420 pages
...shall be created shall praise the Lord ; " " Thou * Isaiah xlv. 7. In another passage it is said, " shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it," Amos iii. 6 ; which is commonly understood to mean, not that he brings moral evil, but that he is the... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1854 - 388 pages
...we must know that, materially considered, all evils Amos iii. 6. of punishment are from God ; for, shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? In evils of sin, there is 11 Errat, si quis putet illos (Deos) quae sunt auetor est ; quia in quannocere... | |
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Shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? 
