...Lord. Another testimony, which corroborates the one already introduced, we have in Prov. xvi. 4. " The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." If God made all fhings for himself, he made the day of evil for himself; and if for himself,...

...other. There may be a seeming, but there is no real opposition between them. Let us remember, that " the Lord hath made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." * * Proverbs, xvi. 4. He " will get him honour'* upon all his creatures, and every one must...

...weighelh the spirits. 3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. 4 The LOAD rcumcised ; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by th evil. 5 Every one '<'''«' is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD : though hand join in hand,...

...LATE JOSEPH Xi&TTIUOP, D. SERMON I. THE HARMONY AND CONSISTENCY OF GOD'S WORKS.. PROVERBS xiv. 4. 4 The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of eoS. THE first clause in the text is similar to many other passages, which we meet with in scripture....

...prayer of a famous divine, ' Let my will be done, O Lord, — my will, because it is thine.' Ver. 4. The Lord hath made all things for himself ; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every rational agent has some end of his work in view. And God, in all his works of creation...

...CONTENTS. PREFACE, MEMOIR, - Vll - xi SERMON I. THE HARMONY AND CONSISTENCY OF GOD S WORKS. The Lord bath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. — Proverbs xiv. 4. ......... Z SERMON II. THE MADNESS AND FATE OF IMPENITENT SINNERS. Yea also...

...light and create darkness ; 1 make peace and create evil ; I the Lord do all these things. Is. 45. 7. The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Prov. 16.4. For oi'him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever....

...heeded, which is that all creatures be subservient to their maker's* glory according to the proverb. ** The Lord hath made all things for himself, yea even the wicked for the day of evil:"* Seeing the end of reprobating any is mainly this, that God may thereby be exalted, as Paid...

...ultimate end, " are all things," Rom. xi. 36. And it is one of the proverbial sentences of Solomon, " The Lord hath made all things for himself, yea even the wicked for the day of evil," Prov. xvi. 4. For though he cannot receive any real benefit or utility from the creature, yet...

...will attempt to remove this objection a little further. ' Doct. p. 37. t Doit. p. 18^ N God says he hath made all things for himself; " yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.'' We conceive it possible that some of the principal designs of an all-wise God, in permitting...