| Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 754 pàgines
...exorbitant course-. of the Bishops; 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... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pàgines
...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 - 1818 - 328 pàgines
...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 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... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 pàgines
...Apostasy. SERMON XXXI. 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... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pàgines
...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 heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. But in the case of earthly parents, and their conduct... | |
| 1819 - 948 pàgines
...were forgotten in the city where they had so done : this is also vanity. 1 1 Because sentence against sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 If Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his... | |
| John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 pàgines
...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 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... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 pàgines
...Ungodly and the Sinner appear ? 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... | |
| Isaac Milner - 1820 - 438 pàgines
...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 heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." In what is called God's moral government of mankind,... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pàgines
...done in the midst thereof, . . , . 28Q SERMON XX. — 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, 297 SERMON XXI.— 2 CORINTHIANS iv. 5. We preach not... | |
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