 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...than the highest regardeth, and there be higher than they." Chnp. viii. 1I. " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." And therefore, there is some other time, beside the time of this life, for executing the sentence which... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 568 pages
...themselves, because, when they commit such wickedness, he keeps silence. " Because judgment against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil." But when once they shall have filled up the measure... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - Preaching - 1818 - 328 pages
...disposition of mind, which Solomon describes in that well-known passage in Eccl. " .Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." It seems, at first sight, as if the wise man had rather exceeded in his portrait of the human heart.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Clergy - 1818 - 650 pages
...Apostasy. SERMON XXXI. DEPRAVITY OF MAN. ITS DEGREE. ECCLESIASTES viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil .work is not executed speedily, therefore...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. IN the two last discourses, I proposed for consideration the following doctrine ; That in consequence... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...the sinner to persist in his sins. " Because sentence against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Eccles. viii. 11. But, ah ! what will be the consequence ? The stroke long delayed will fall the heavier;... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...were forgotten in the city where they had so done : this is also vanity. 1 1 Because sentence against 12 If Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...the character given of all wicked men by the Preacher, Eccles. yiii. 11 : Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. But in the case of earthly parents, and their conduct towards the children intrusted to their care,... | |
 | Isaac Milner - Sermons, English - 1820 - 438 pages
...difference is suggested by the awful and emplnUical declaration in tny text, that " because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." In what is called God's moral government of mankind, this lamentable truth is exemplified every day... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 548 pages
...done in the midst thereof, . . , . 28Q SERMON XX. — ECCLESIASTES viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily ; therefore...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil, 297 SERMON XXI.— 2 CORINTHIANS iv. 5. We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1820 - 358 pages
...reason, but yet it lies at the bottom of their hearts. So Solomon tells us, because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Eccl. viii. 14. But it is not always thus. There are few of us but have seen instances of God's severity... | |
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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 
