 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...vapour. Vice, indeed, in all ranks, will receive merited punishment; yet, 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, vainly trusting that they may continue to sin 12 with impunity; nevertheless, though a sinner do evil... | |
 | John Venn - 1822 - 460 pages
...uncertain. Hence the fear of punishment is seldom a powerful restraint from sin. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...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... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...because the drunkard is not called away from his debaucheries to give an account of himself to God ; " therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." But, " though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1823 - 452 pages
...Ungodly and the Sinner appear? SOLOMON, the Royal Preacher, remarks, that " because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily ; therefore...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... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 146 pages
...it without reverence ? 122. Why t> if that so many indulge in profaneness ? Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.- Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1823 - 670 pages
...mentioned. The wise man has, however, summed them all up in one verse : " Because sentence " against an evil work is not executed speedily, " therefore...the sons of men is fully " set in them to do evil." l IV. Let us, in the last place, make some practical use of the subject. The view of the unfathomable... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 144 pages
...never profaned the name of GOD? Do you not profane it whenever you mention it without reverence ? ly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.- Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 pages
...harm hath happened unto me ?" Ecclus. v. 4. Lo, even forbearance obdureth ; " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil," Eccl. viii. 1 1 . How much more do the riches of God's goodness, which are the hottest beams of that... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 652 pages
...t Deut. xxxii. 32. VOL. I. 2 K SERMON XXXI. DEPRAVITY OF MAN: ITS DEGREE. 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. ECCLBSIASTE8 VIII. 11. IN the two last discourses, I proposed for consideration the following doctrine... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...tendency to make sinners think less of the consequences and persist in evil : " 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. Eccl. via. 11." And it is chiefly " when God's judgments are in the earth, that the inhabitants of... | |
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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. 
