 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1820 - 358 pages
...bottom of their hearts. So Solomon tells us, 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. Eccl. viii. 14. But it is not always thus. There are few of us but have seen instances of God's severity to sinners,... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 pages
...SOLOMON, the Royal Preacher, remarks, that " 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." What we do see in the conduct of men strikingly illustrates the truth of this remark : and doubtless... | |
 | Isaac Milner - Sermons, English - 1820 - 438 pages
...and emplnUical declaration in tny text, that " 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 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
...for ever and ever. Amen. 22* ECCL. 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. A. HOUGrH God had not favoured us with an explicit revelation of his will, yet that absolute perfection... | |
 | Isaac Milner - Sermons, English - 1820 - 442 pages
...distinction just mentioned — viz. " 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." On these words I ground the manifest distinction between those gross acts of perjury which are punishable... | |
 | Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...would tremble; but they have not even this, and "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 though a hundred of their friends are hurried into eternity before their eyes, these human brutes... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...is in the hearts of all natural men. They are turned from the love of God to the love of evil. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. So says our ninth article, " Fallen man is of his own nature inclined to evil," hi» inclinations are... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1855 - 400 pages
...that the events of the last few months would wean this stricken people from their idolatry. " But the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Hence such statements as the following. October 17. The present is a time of very great excitement... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...is in the hearts of all natural men. They are turned from the love of God to the love of evil. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. So says our ninth article : " Fallen man is of his own nature inclined to evil :" his inclinations... | |
 | John Venn - Sermons - 1822 - 478 pages
...punishment is seldom a powerful restraint from sin. "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." There are cases, indeed, in which the terrors of the Lord operate with their due force. When conscience... | |
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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. 
