...to both personal and communal admonition. She reminds us of the scriptural warning that there cannot 'be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it' (p. 58). Through providence God manipulates the agents of evil for the scourging of his chosen people...

...understanding: nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Amos 3: 6: Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it? Let it go as it goes, it goes as God wills. Ecclesiasticus 1 8: 4: To whom hath he given power to declare...

...follow it, are by the providence of God. In this sense are we to understand the prophet when he says, Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos iii. 6. he means any public calamity, affliction, and distress ; even cities themselves come to...

...of the heathen's survival. She thinks of the words of the prophets, Amos and Michah: "Amos iii. 6, Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it? . . . Mich, vi ... 9 ... Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it." 3 To Rowlandson, what she witnesses...

...did Mary Rowlandson perceive, and welcome, her captivity, invoking, twice, the passage from Amos 3:6 "Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it?" Recalling "how careless I had been of Gods holy time: how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent," she...

...Christ sits exalted as Lord at God's right hand. He is over all. There are no second causes with Him. "Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" asks the prophet. It is "evil," not in the sense of sin, of course, but of calamity, even if that calamity...