 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 pagine
...there were no/00/? but these. These, in the highest sense, and in the most striking manner, " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." The scriptures speak of such in the following language.... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pagine
...guides even a man's judgment, so wickedness may distort it to such a degree, as that he may " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ;"£ and " think wickedly, that God is such an one as himself."|| Even the better sort of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pagine
...Following out our own devices and desires, we do evil and speak lies. Oni nature being inverted, we " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness." Action and speech are the ultimation of will and thought, and the human race was created... | |
 | 1804 - 502 pagine
...happiness and the way of obtaining it A deceived heart hath turned them aside, and hence they call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ; mis* cry for happiness, and happiness for misery.... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 pagine
...the eyes of their understanding to the apprehension of the truths of God ! They then no longer call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Isaiah, v. '20. Well might the Apostle, on his... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 680 pagine
...principles and defective rules which sinners have invented for themselves ; according to which they " call " evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, " and light for darkness ; sweet for bitter, and " bitter for sweet." The sacred writers speak of the Gentiles as having... | |
 | Samuel Nott - 1828 - 108 pagine
...The counterfeiter, here also, might borrow an argument from good and respectable citizens; for if he repents and retires, some other will perhaps be drawn...important a means of the wealth of the country. We every where hear the importance of the market which is opened at the distilleries, for coarse grains.... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1829 - 738 pagine
...my people, they which lead thee cause thec to err, and destroy the way of thy paths ; when they call evil good, and good evil — put darkness for light, and light for darkness, then is there a special divine displeasure. Amos viii. 11. Surely eveiy minister should,... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 pagine
...such a light shining round about them, — such a code of laws ever open before them, — can " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." J " God is LOVE," says the " Scripture of Truth... | |
 | Bennet Tyler - 1837 - 222 pagine
...ever acts, or can act from any other principle, whatever he may think or pretend. Surely, these ' call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.' They call that virtue and goodness which is directly... | |
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... call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ;"-]- and " think wickedly, that God is such an one as himself. 
