| Samuel Spring - Theological anthropology - 1815 - 262 pages
..." Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart toil? The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." The Prophet testifies that, " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Such... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...also vanity. 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the Ireart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 754 pages
...and knowing well whnt the wise man suith, ' 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,' (the timely redrtss whereof doth better become i the wisdom of 11 parliament than a too late wo! ful... | |
| Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816 - 340 pages
...Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily — (and we may also say — certainly) therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." (a) It has been before observed, that some judges have reprieved, for many offences made capital by... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...there be higher than they." Chnp. viii. 1I. " 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." And therefore, there is some other time, beside the time of this life, for executing the sentence which... | |
| Thomas Hannam - Preaching - 1818 - 328 pages
...describes in that well-known passage in Eccl. " .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." 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
...DEPRAVITY OF MAN. ITS DEGREE. ECCLESIASTES viii. 11. 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. 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
...where they had so done : this is also vanity. 1 1 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed 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
...wicked men by the Preacher, Eccles. yiii. 11 : 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. But in the case of earthly parents, and their conduct towards the children intrusted to their care,... | |
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