| Philip Schaff - 1877 - 948 pągines
...faith, scarce thirty years old : to whom that saying of Isaiah does very well agree — ' Woe nnto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter' (v. 20). CHAPTER XIV. OF REPENTANCE, AND THE CONVERSION OF MAI?. The Gospel has the doctrine... | |
| Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - 1871 - 720 pągines
...foot from their path : for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood ' (Prov. i. 10-16). Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Which justify... | |
| 1810 - 582 pągines
...Hypocrite, or Fanatic, are the mildest epithets which will be applied to him ! But what says Jehovah? ' Woe unto them that call evil Good, and good Evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are an abomination... | |
| 1808 - 500 pągines
...the work of corruption more secretly, but more certainly : bul hear the words of the prophel — " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, anj sweet for bitter." (Isaiah v. 20.) " Of the same nature with indecent conversation is the singing... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pągines
...filings are all bugbears, and that God can20 not or will not do а.ч they have said. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! who confound the nature qf virtue and vice, contrary to their judg21 тел F and knowledge.... | |
| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 454 pągines
...to them from it. The prophet Isaiah speaks of these people, where he says, ' Woe unto them who call evil good, ' and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and ' light for darkness, &c.' In his sermon on which text the witty Dr. South hath these words : — * Df' traction... | |
| 1807 - 570 pągines
...it : and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know // .' 20 ^f Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! 22 Woe... | |
| Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 454 pągines
...should concur in endeavouring to turn it into ridicule. Woe unto them, says the prophet Isaiah, that cd\ evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter I— fheir root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust ; because they... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 456 pągines
...fools should concur in endeavouring to turn it into ridicule. Woe unto them, says the prophet Isaiah, that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that fut bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter !•?-> 'Their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pągines
...usually, takes the one for the other, until it falls under that woe denounced by the prophet, Isa. v. 20. Woe unto them, that call evil good, and good evil...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Ignorance vitiates and corrupts the conscience two ways: either it makes it unnecessarily scrupulous... | |
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