...or branches of the same sentence, and directs us to rest while we can tell three ; as, Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. And especially where there is a sort of opposition between the one and the other ; as, And...

...generation that 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. . , , . .. , , . ,...

...fifth sermon in the volume by the Warden of New College. The text considered is the well-known passage, Isaiah v. 20. " Woe unto them that call evil good,...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." This discourse contains the following observations — observations extremely important to...

...English tongue, and changed the very meaning of words; calling black, white ; and bitter, sweet. " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." 16. The next feature of the times, is "heady," or precipitate, or forward : which maybe seen...

...from the law 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 ;...darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah. v. 20. Those are here denounced •who falsify the Word, and thence teach false doctrines,...

...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...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa. v. 20. 2. Those who boast of superior wisdom, are often chargeable with the greatest...

...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...thousand, but they laid not their hands on the pre bitter ! 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Wo unto...

...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...darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." — " As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate...

...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,...

...quarter, to 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 ;...darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ;" it, by implication, pronounces them blessed, who say to the imprisoned spirit, ' Go free;'...