 | Francis Goode - 1854 - Страниц: 324
...perverseness in the will, a depraved bias, that inevitably carries him to the choice, only of what is sinful. He calls evil good, and good evil ; puts darkness...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... | |
 | Francis Goode - 1854 - Страниц: 324
...perverseness in the will, a depraved bias, that inevitably carries him to the choice, only of what is sinful. He calls evil good, and good evil ; puts darkness...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
...and 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 of self-love,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1854 - Страниц: 822
...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 : " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - Страниц: 480
...creed and the Devil's creed, we are tempted to use the language of the prophet, " Wo to them who put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, evil for good and good for evil." The contest between Popery and Protestantism is no scuffle in the... | |
 | 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
...creed and the devil's creed, we are tempted to use the language of the prophet, " Wo to them who put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, evil for good and good for evil." The contest between Popery and Protestantism is no scuffle in the... | |
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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. 
