| John Alexander Dowie - Church history - 1889 - 158 pages
...only rightly understand many passages by altering the causative into the permissive. For instance, ' Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? ' Amos 3 : 6. Will any of you say that God creates, is the doer of, every iniquity in San Francisco?... | |
| Healers - 1889 - 172 pages
...only rightly understand many passages by altering the causative into tha permissive. For instance, ' Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? ' Amos 3 : 6. Will any of you say that God creates, is the doer of, every iniquity in San Francisco?... | |
| William Robertson - 1891 - 320 pages
...in its grasp, and Fate is another name for God ; it is His work you are doing ; go on and prosper. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? " If Lady Elizabeth had a stray thought of yielding, she smothered it with the remembrance of the... | |
| William A. Redding - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1894 - 322 pages
...coming from some other cause — never dreaming that the Lord is back of it, pushing it to a focus. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it? — Amos 3:6. And I declare unto you tHat unseen Spiritual force is now working on the people, so that... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - Bible - 1896 - 362 pages
...accept the prophet's statement, and say that it is God Himself that has wrought the ruin we deplore. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it ? is a vigorous statement, and it may be made into a dangerous doctrine, but it is all the same the very... | |
| Almira Larkin White - 1900 - 1014 pages
...should 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, and that I might learn that great lesson.... | |
| Howard Wiegner Kriebel - Schwenkfelders - 1904 - 334 pages
...read Leviticus XXVI., and by way of introduction referred to and briefly explained Amos III. 6 : " Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" He maintained that the ministers of the English court were instruments in the hands of God like Nebuchadnezzar... | |
| Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1908 - 660 pages
...have been its secondary origin, must be traced to the ultimate disposition of the providence of God. "Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" God has often appeared in fire. Fire is the symbol of his holiness, justice, and wrath. These are represented... | |
| William Marshall - 1911 - 170 pages
...for he hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up ' (Hosea vi. 1). ' Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? ' (Amos iii. 6). We have thus dealt fully and in detail with Government by Miracle, that thereby... | |
| Charles Henry Lincoln, John Easton - Indians of North America - 1913 - 362 pages
...should be ready to run out against the Heathen, but the Scripture would quiet me again, Amos 3. 6, Shal there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? The Lord help me to make a right improvment of His Word, and that I might learn that great lesson,... | |
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