...understanding, is of the most fatal kind : it teaches us to call evil good, and good evil ; to put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Accordingly we read of " the deceiveableness of unrighteousness." The same individuals who had " pleasure...

...obtaining it. A deceived heart hath turned them aside, and hence they call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ; misery for happiness, and happiness for misery. They are strangely and unreasonably disaffected towards...

...world: and therefore they change the names of things, " calling good, evil, and evil good, putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." By these means they succeed in allaying their own fears, and in commending themselves to each other;...

...perverted both the taste and the judgment, that we sometimes call evil good, and good evil : we put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. We are, in scripture language, wise in our own eyes, and prudent in our own sight; when, alas! we know...

...other principle, whatever he may think or pretend. Surely these " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."* They call that virtue and goodness, which is directly opposed to all true virtue and goodness ; and...

...does of colours, neither of them knowing " what they say, nor whereof they affirm; and therefore " put darkness for light, and light for darkness : bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitjter.V And happy would it be, if this were confined to heathens, and those barbarous nations whom...

...See Psalm cxlv. rules in the children of disobedience, as "to call good evil, and . evil good; to put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter;"* it is not to be imagined that they can avoid running into perpetual mistakes in attempting to reason...

...regard. Hence they fall into the most ruinous mistakes, "calling evil good, and good •vil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."* But Christ has engaged to "bring the blind by a way they knew not, and to make darkness light before...

...minds begin to be alienated from their duty, and they learn to call evil good, and good evil, to put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. It is then the business of the preacher, if preaching be not a mere matter of form, to do what he can...

...of liberality, confounds things that differ ; " putting evil for good, and good for evil, darkneas for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ;" and thus ruining souls, by " suffering sin upon them," and allowing them to sleep on in their delusions....