 | Francis Goode - 1854 - Страниц: 324
...inevitably carries him to the choice, only of what is sinful. He calls evil good, and good evil ; puts darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Thus he is a miserable bond-slave of the devil ; not because God has taken from him his moral freedom... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1854 - Страниц: 870
...the greatest darkness and delusion that can be in nature. It calls evil good, and good evil ; it puts darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.* (Isa. v. 20.) This will appear more evident and clear, perhaps, by considering the nature and tendency... | |
 | Alfred Lee - 1854 - Страниц: 116
...unchecked and dominant in the regenerate. Is not this like calling evil good, and good evil, putting darkness for light, and light for darkness: bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ? The Office for the baptism of adults fully sustains the view deduced from the Article that the applicant... | |
 | Elijah Wilson - 1855 - Страниц: 532
...and whose heart departeth from the Lord." " Woe to them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." Through every gilded pleasure, faith perceives the poison and the sting ; through every kiss of kind... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1855 - Страниц: 534
...if not altogether justifiable and right*. He teaches them to " call evil good and good evil ; to put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter0." We may see one man carried on by ostentation and vanity, while he thinks himself actuated... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1856 - Страниц: 726
...glosses on the rules of God's word, to bend them to a compliance with their lusts ; and so they " put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." They are subject to deceits and delusions about the things of this world. They imagine that there is... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - Страниц: 384
...character, and, above all, a merciless intolerance." In his review of Von Ranke, on the other hand, how tenderly does he treat the Jesuits, some of whom...darkness have been waging for ages their ever-deepening, ever-widening, but not for a moment dubious engagement. Protestantism at a stand-still! Neither as... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1857 - Страниц: 444
...faculties, that under its terrible influence men will " call evil good, and good evil ; they will put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."* To us in our fallen condition fiends often appear more fair than angels, wo mistake the gates of hell... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 788
...a spiritual discernment bestowed upon us to prevent us calling evil good and good evil, and putting darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Definite words and phrases are but the outward expression of this inward standard of measurement. Truth,... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 930
...faculties!, that under its terrible influence, men will "call evil good and good evil ;" tiiev will put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." To us. in our fallen condition, fiends often appear more fair than angels, we mistake the gates of... | |
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Woe be to them who call good evil, and evil good placing darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter... 
