 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 754 pages
...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 ' 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 - 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... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...man's conduct, when " sentence against an " evil work is not executed -speedily, " therefore the heart of men is fully set " in them to do evil." Eccles. viii. 11. and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent ; his eyes are set against the poor.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 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... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - 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 - 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; the stream... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 pages
...not the face to offer this as. a reason, but yet it lies at the bottom of their hearts. So Solomon tells us, because sentence against an evil work is...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. 
