 | Richard Cope Morgan - 1870 - 218 pages
...advantage over God's little flock of silly sheep, by subverting the counsel of the prophetic word, putting darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, until the very Church of Christ has been an unconscious deceiver as to the course of this age ; mistaking... | |
 | Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) - 1872 - 72 pages
...To confound things which so differ, to treat as one the persecutor and the persecuted, is to put " darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter;" and must result in making history an unmeaning jumble. So te confound persons and parties is, in this... | |
 | Theodore Shurt - 1872 - 210 pages
...revealed in its real character before the all-seeing eye. Among ourselves we may go on putting " JDarkness for light and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter," but all such error, such deception is utterly useless when we come to our great and final account,... | |
 | William Pulsford - 1873 - 358 pages
...poison, and poison as beneficial as food. And there are who "call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter;" but a woe is pronounced upon them. — -And, similarly, God is to us what we are to Him : " to the... | |
 | Mary Virginia Terhune - 1875 - 272 pages
...shoulders must bear until death cut the sharp cords ; that in her mistaken indulgence she is putting darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. MEATS, INCLUDING POULTRY AND GAME. CALF'S LIVER, <J I'Anglaise. © 2 pounds fresh liver. J pound fat... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 pages
...even of in the least degree underrating — the eternal distinctions of right and wrong ; of putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter ; it is, in one word, the sin of viewing things in their wrong aspects, of calling things by their... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 pages
...and even of in the least degree underrating—the eternal distinctions of right and wrong; of putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter; it is, in one word, the sin of viewing things in their wrong aspects, of calling things by their wrong... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - 1876 - 298 pages
...dangerous of all gifts, unless it be guided perception of truth. . Q{ good, and good evil : it can put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Nay, the wave of its magic wand can fill not only this life, but even the region beyond the river of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - 1877 - 408 pages
...adds : ' These are the people who mistake in every thing. They call evil good and good evil ; they put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.' We should expect that Universalism would be misunderstood by such people. How can it be otherwise?... | |
 | Duncan Macgregor (of Dunoon.) - 1877 - 378 pages
...they mistake the voice of their lusts for the voice of God, and so call evil good and good evil, put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter; they are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight, justify the wicked for reward, and... | |
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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... 
