 | Amicus Protestans - 1822 - 274 pages
...feelings of complacency, or joy — "As for me, I have not desired the woeful day, thou knowest."— " Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord — to what end is it for you ? Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light — even very dark, and no brightness in... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 394 pages
...else we do nothing but ask our own condemnation, as the Prophet Amos hath most awfully warned us ; " Woe unto you *' that desire the day of the Lord. To...the day of the Lord is darkness, " and not light." » To instruct us therefore on what it is that our share in the kingdom of God depends, our Saviour... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 532 pages
...else we do nothing but ask our own condemnation; as the prophet Amos hath most awfully warned us : Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord. To what...you? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light ^. To instruct us therefore, on what it is, that our share in the kingdom of God depends, our Saviour... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shiill be wailing : for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 to true teaie it given by our translators. 1UP. VI. Vet. I. Slrictan Him kani.— This • \ i* Jarkaess, and not light. I'1 As if a man did flee from a ion, and a bear met him ; or went nto the... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...you may know the worst you have to suffer, or as if the threatened evil will never be inflicted ; ' to what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.' The calamity will neither be so slight, nor so transient, as ye presumptuously imagine, but a succession... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing : for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 e Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD ! to « ^ »• '»• what end w it for you? d the day of the LORD is darkness, dj«.xxx.r , . ,- ,. JJ Joclii.2. and not light. zeph.i.... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1827 - 256 pages
...for this time to come ? ask our own condemnation ; as the Prophet Amos hath most awfully warned us: "Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord. To what end is it to you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, not light." • t In order to instruct us on what it is that... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...They talk of the desirableness of death ; but expose themselves to the censure of the prophet, " Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what...? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...children of God — without rebuke ! OCTOBER 1. — "ffoe unto you that desire the day of the Lord I To what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light." Amos v. 18. WB may apply this to the day of death. How often do men, when in trouble and disappointment,... | |
 | 1832 - 468 pages
...arise with healing on his wings, oh what a day of wrath intervenes ! To how many, alas ! may we not say "Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to...? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light" (Amos v. 18). " That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation,... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 
