 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...of " Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." Such is not the religious system of the word of God. That word says, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" And " thus saith the Lord," because the character which he unchangeably sustains, and under... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 492 pages
...with your own character, and pregnant with danger to others ; woe indeed is denounced against them " that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter;" but remember, no excuse is made for those, who are wilfully deceived by their delusions. The... | |
 | John Thornton - 1823 - 196 pages
...their feast, but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter '. " Isa. v, 8, 11, 12, 20. Thus it plainly appears, the boasted delights of the wicked are... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - God - 1823 - 478 pages
...NATURAL RELIGION, AND THE TRUTH AND CERTAINTY OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION. Isa. v. 20. Wo ucto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Kom. i. 22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 1 Cor. ii. 10. But God hath... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...danger " ! 19. That say, " Let him (с) make • speed, and hasten his work, that we ' may see if : and let the counsel of the • Holy One of Israel...sweet for : bitter. 21. Woe unto them that are wise (rf) in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight. 22. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...riches profit not in the day of wrath, and that the pleasures of sin, which are only for a season, * " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."—Isaiah v. 20. A justly admired commentator makes the following remark on this passage. "... | |
 | David Osgood - Congregational churches - 1824 - 486 pages
...24 SERMON III. ON THE IMMUTABLE DISTINCTION BETWEEN OOOD AND EVIL. Imiiili v. 20. — Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter" for sweet, and sweet for bitter. . 37 SERMON IV. ON THE INSTITUTION OF THE SABBATH. * ^Genesis ii. 2, 3. — On the seventh... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...decisions. It was said formerly, and the denunciation has immutable truth for its basis : " 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. The nature of things, whether in physics or ethics, cannot be changed without... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 632 pages
...abhor him1." And if this be done as a worship of God, you may hence judge how acceptable it will be : " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter"'." To make people believe that holiness is but hypocrisy, or a needless thing, or that the... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...you 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... | |
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; That put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
