...communicate concerning his moral government, accords with its principles. The prophet Amos exclaims : shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Here we see a jealousy, not of the purity of the divine goodness, but of the sovereignty of the divine...

...den, if he have taken nothing ? Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is for him I Shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have...there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Surely, the Lord God. will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets....

...whatsover be the nature of the action as from him, the sovereign hand of God is in them, and chief in them. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? And yet all evils, as he doth them, are both good and well done. Actions, whether voluntary or casual,...

...therefore also that holy thing which shall be horn of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke i. 35. Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos iii. 6. For the inhabitants of Maroth waited carefully for good but evil came down from the...

...say, comes from the hand of God. Accordingly he saith by the mouth of his Prophet Amos, ch. iii. 6, " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it." And, again by Jeremiah, ch. xviii. 11, "Speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,...

...create darkness : I make peace and create evil : I the Lord do alL these things." Isaiah xlv. 6. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" : Amos iii. 6. E 2 It is common among a certain class of theologians to make a distinction between...

...his glory in the highest manner, and give it to a devil and a witch r Is it not he that hath said, Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? But if any are fond of their own notions, because some eminent men before now have asserted them,...

...form the light, and create darkness : I make peace, and " create evil a." And by the prophet Amos, " Shall there " be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done itb?" In the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah it is expressed thus : " Who is he that saith, and...

...the heart. The appeal of the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of the prophet Amos, is equally pertinent: " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it." This is a kind of challenge to any person to point to any evil, if he could, in the production of which....

...fellow-helpers to the truth, 415 A Sermon on the General Fast, February 21st, 1781. , AMOS in. 6. — Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? 437 Letter from Mr. Howard to Dr. Stennett, 459 A Trip to Holyhead, , 461 The Bird of Paradise, '...