 | Gildas (st.) - 1841 - Страниц: 220
...carefully avoid that saying of Isaiah, " 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, who seeing see not, and hearing hear not, whose hearts are overshadowed with a thick and black cloud... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 1048
...spiritual and divine : it may be fairly presumed, that he will " call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Let us conceive, for a moment, of the Scriptures as constructed on the plan these " gainsayers " suggest... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 844
...by their right names ; we shall no longer "call evil good and good evil ;" we shall no more " put. darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." For then the eyes of the blindest sinner will be opened to see the reality of all things declared to... | |
 | John Hobart Caunter - 1842 - Страниц: 412
...clear interpretations of truth ; good may be shown to be evil, and evil good ; darkness may be put for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. But call things by what names you may, this does not alter their real character. Truth will be truth... | |
 | W. Hill - 1843 - Страниц: 134
...but let thy grace deliver me from evil, and fill my heart with gratitude and love! O let me not put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. IT is a good thing to give thanks unto thee, O Lord, and to sing to thy praise, O thou Most High! to... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 722
...their Protestant principles, they fall altogether into the trap of the designer, and now learn to put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ; or in plainer words, evil is mistaken for good, and good is put for evil ; lies spoken in hypocrisy... | |
 | Protestant association - 1844 - Страниц: 420
...instigations of seducing spirits ; which muffles the eyes of sense, and fetters the hands of liberty ; which puts darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ; which shows many ways of salvation, where God hath made known but one ; which teaches, in contradiction... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - Страниц: 712
...glosses on the rules of God's word, to bend them to a compliance with their lusts ; and so they " put any with fornicators. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, They are subject to deceits and delusions about the things of this teorld. They imagine that there... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 316
...tbe plan of salvation, and the methods of the Lord's dealings with his people, that darkness is put for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter : real hopes are turned upside down ; fair prospects end in disappointment ; and death is near instead... | |
 | 1846 - Страниц: 498
...the truth." But, in all such cases, the power of seeing things in their true light is lost. The man "puts darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." He knows aot where he is. He fancies himself near to God when he is at an immeasurable distance from... | |
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He calls evil good, and good evil ; puts darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 
