...alludes to,; or rather paraphrases those words of Isaiah quoted before — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL : / the Lord do all these things: For what is this but garnishing the Heavens, and FORMING THE CROOKED SERPENT? But the relation and...

...the evil, and his hand, and his heart, and his counsel, are to be seen and submissively acknowledged. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? No evil can come to a city, a family, or person, without the divine agency. God sometimes brings natural...

...a cross one ? It is the finger of God, though we see a creature's whole hand in it, Amos iii. 6. ' Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?' Now,.seeing they are his works, they ought to be observed. 2. Because they are great works, Psal....

...and shall we not receive evil ? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it ? I form the light, and create darkness : 1 make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Yet we are directed to pray, without...

...causes, and view it as a judgment from the Almighty for the sins of which we, as a nation, are guilty. " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?" The improvement that may and ought to be made is of a twofold nature. It may be considered as a...

...reasons to us mysterious, it is here called the mystery of God, in the sense of Amos, iii, 6, — «* Shall there be evil in a city, and the "Lord hath not done it i" ' 160 -.it is to be the means of opening the wide and tremendous gulph of TOPHET,* more like, from...

...and have taken nothing at ail? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets....

...darkness ; I make peace and create evil, I the Lord do all these things." Also the prophet Amos asks, " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" But these texts must necessarily be understood agreeably to the •trong hyperbolical idiom of ancient...

...holy fcriptures, that the evils which men endure, arc inffifted by divine Providence. Amos iii. 6. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Lam. iii. 38. " Out of the mouth of the Moil High, proceedeth not evil and good ?" • It is unneceflary...

...earth and have taken nothing it ill ( 6 Shall a trumpet be blown In thc city, and the people п,д .il there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done iff 7 Surely the Lord Goo will do nothing he reveateth his fccret unto IIB fcrvantî the prophets....