...sorrow, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger? — Lam. i. 12, &c. iii. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? — Amos iii. 6. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee,...

...challengeth to himself ; " I make peace and create evil : I, the Lord, do all these things," Isa. xlv. 7. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " saith the prophet, Amos iii. 6. Why then do I not thus argue with myself in my sufferings ? ' Is...

...sorrow, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger? — Lam. i. 12, &c. iii. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? — Amos iii. 6. Therefore thus will 1 do unto thee, O Israel ; and because I will do this unto thee,...

...commandeth it not ? Out of the mouth of the iMost High proceedeth not evil and good ? Lam. iii. 37, 38. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos iii. 6 ; that is to say, shall there be any sickness, or affliction, which is not overruled...

...Ahab, Athaliah, or Manasseh, brought calamities upon them, God made use of them as his instruments. " Shall there be evil in " a city, and the Lord hath not done it r"1 The evil of sin is wholly from the creature ; but the evil of stiff ering from the LORD, who thus...

...to be truly rendered as the same word is rendered in 2 Sam. ii. 6, requite; and the clause reads : Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not requited it ? It does indeed appear, according to our acceptation of tlie word deceived, that there...

...where no gin is for him ? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all ? 6 burn i LOUD hath not done if ? 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he rerealeth his secret unto his...

...the Author, let the words of the Prophet' Amos recur to your remembrance and rest on your mind : " The lion hath roared, who will not fear ? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy ?" (Amos ii. 8.) But you cannot prophesy, unless you be instructed by the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. In our...

...Spirit of God, by his afflatus, constrained him to declare the fearful consequences of their sins. " The lion hath roared, who will not fear ? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy ?" If all are struck with fear when the lion roars, how much more ought they to be moved by the command...

...unhappy in our remarks upon that than we consider you to have been, you, and your readers must judge. " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?" Amos iti. 6. All men, who are not infidels, must answer this questionin the negative; for the Lord...