 | Thom Scott - Theology - 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... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 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... | |
 | Christian life - 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Religion - 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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 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... | |
 | Richard Twopeny - Bible - 1824 - 376 pages
...reasonable creatures. The inference which the wise King of Israel notes; " 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 evil10," is not more perverse in conduct, than it is in argument to urge any objections from this source... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 620 pages
...to conclude the threatenings of scripture to be mere empty words. Thus, " because " sentence against an evil work is not executed " speedily, therefore...heart of the sons of men " is fully set in them to do evil."1 But 'f he that " being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall " suddenly be destroyed and... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1825 - 458 pages
...the Lord men depart from evil 345 SERMON XXXVIII. DELAY OF PUNISHMENT THE CAUSE OF SIN. ECCLESIASTES VIII. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is...of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 355 SERMON XXXIX. AGAINST MALICE AND RESENTMENT. ROMANS XII. 17. Recompense no man evil for evil ,... | |
 | John Owen - Conscience, Examination of - 1825 - 338 pages
...had of sin, the less they are afraid of it, as the wise man intimates — " 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 at length they come to be the greatest contemners of sin in the world. No sinner like him that... | |
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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. 
