| Edward Irving - 1828 - 820 pages
...English tongue, and changed the very meaning of words; calling black, white ; and bitter, sweet. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." 16. The next feature of the times, is "heady," or precipitate, or forward : which maybe seen... | |
| 1828 - 546 pages
...volume by the Warden of New College. The text considered is the well-known passage, Isaiah v. 20. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." This discourse contains the following observations — observations extremely important to... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...from the law and testimony, or the word and doctrine from it, and its spiritual and literal sense. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah. v. 20. Those are here denounced •who falsify the Word, and thence teach false doctrines,... | |
| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 pages
...flattering titles to any man, and withstood even Peter to the face, when he was Ui be blamed. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa. v. 20. 2. Those who boast of superior wisdom, are often chargeable with the greatest... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1828 - 380 pages
...if we falsify them, and break their force upon our own minds, or the minds of others. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." — " As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate... | |
| 1828 - 1042 pages
...et the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 20 II Wo unto them lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of...thousand, but they laid not their hands on the pre bitter ! 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Wo unto... | |
| Henry Walter - 1828 - 524 pages
...do something towards rescuing unsuspicious youth from the snares laid in their way by such as call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, the writer has been induced to resolve on offering his countrymen a History of England,... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear :" Isa. lix, 1, 2. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Woe unto them... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...doctrines concerning the factitious origin of moral distinctions as have been now under our review ? " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." f SECTION II. Of the agri-cable and disagreeable Emotions arising from the Perception of what... | |
| 1829 - 760 pages
...quarter, to liberate their souls from the thraldom thus imposed. But, if the voice of God has said, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ;" it, by implication, pronounces them blessed, who say to the imprisoned spirit, ' Go free;'... | |
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