| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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;... | |
| Thomas Hannam - 1818 - 328 σελίδες
...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.... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 σελίδες
...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, they... | |
| 1819 - 948 σελίδες
...so done : this is also vanity. 1 1 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, e American Bible Society 12 If Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it... | |
| John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 σελίδες
...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 ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 σελίδες
...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 - 1820 - 442 σελίδες
...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... | |
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