...side of the picture. " I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do these things." (Tsa. xlv. 7.) " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos iii. 6.) God is the doer of all things ; and that a people should have come into this condition,...

...solemn event was improved the Sabbath after his return home, in a discourse founded on Amos iii. 6, ' Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ?' and the 13th of June has ever since been held as a day of...

...measure of love, thy last end shall be like his. SEBMON CXXXVII.— On Public Diversions. •' Shall the trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iii, 6. IT is well if there are not too many here,...

...challengeth to himself. " I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all these things," Isa. xlv. 7. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. Why do I not thus argue with myself in my sufferings ? Is it not the hand of my good God...

...bad. And there is nothing done by any of your afflicters, which is not governed by the will of God : " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iii. 6. " So the king hearkened not to the people ; for the cause was of God, that the Lord...

...nature of the action as from him, the sovereign hand of God is in them, and chief in them. Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? And yet all evils, as Ife doth them, are both good and well done. Actions, whether voluntary or casual,...

...bad. And there is nothing done by any of your afflicters, which is not governed by the will of God : " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. "So the king hearkened not to the people ; for the cause was of God, that the Lord might...

...him ? or shall one take a snare from the earth and have taken nothing ? Shall a trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?' Here was the true author of the judgments. He it was that had laid the snare. He that had as a lion...

...to assert his dominion and influence over all the sufferings of nations, families, and individuals. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it! I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things."...

...election, though it refers to a moral law which constitutes a part of God's government of the world, " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?" God causes evil as the sun causes darkness, by withdrawing his light and his influence. The display...