 | 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... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Eccles.viii.il. Because sentence against an evil work, is not executed speedily, therefore...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 2 Cor. i. 9, 10. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 it shall... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 458 pages
...This effect is well and accurately described in the book of Ecclesiastes ; " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil *." It was to obviate these fatal consequences, as well as to give... | |
 | 1871 - 348 pages
...conclude it was never to grow. And so it is with men in regard to their sins. " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."* But the harvest is sure to come. If it does not come before, it will come at the judgment-day. Well may... | |
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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. 
