Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Sermons - Page 376by Hugh Blair - 1808Full view - About this book
| William Hone - 1827 - 412 pages
...are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. Prov. xxx. 12. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness j that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Isaiah^ v. 20. . , , . .. , , . ,... | |
| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 pages
...flattering titles to any man, and withstood even Peter to the face, when he was Ui be blamed. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa. v. 20. 2. Those who boast of superior wisdom, are... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1828 - 380 pages
...if we falsify them, and break their force upon our own minds, or the minds of others. " Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." — " As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...and testimony, or the word and doctrine from it, and its spiritual and literal sense. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah. v. 20. Those are here denounced •who falsify... | |
| 1828 - 1042 pages
...et the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 20 II Wo unto them lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 820 pages
...tongue, and changed the very meaning of words; calling black, white ; and bitter, sweet. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." 16. The next feature of the times, is "heady," or precipitate,... | |
| 1828 - 546 pages
...Warden of New College. The text considered is the well-known passage, Isaiah v. 20. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." This discourse contains the following observations —... | |
| Henry Walter - 1828 - 524 pages
...do something towards rescuing unsuspicious youth from the snares laid in their way by such as call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, the writer has been induced to resolve on offering his countrymen a History of England,... | |
| 1829 - 760 pages
...liberate their souls from the thraldom thus imposed. But, if the voice of God has said, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ;" it, by implication, pronounces them blessed, who say... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...concerning the factitious origin of moral distinctions as have been now under our review ? " Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil ; that put darkness for light and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." f SECTION II. Of the agri-cable and disagreeable Emotions... | |
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