 | John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...it never will. So the royal Preacher found it in his day ; so it is still. "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."1 But what kind of reasoning is this ? what temper of mind does it... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1827 - 986 pages
...more force and energy than the former. His text was Eccles. viii. 11:" Because sentence against au evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." He began with saying, " In the day that thou eatest thereof thou... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...the earth, who doth good, and sinneth not. — Eccles. vii. 20. Prov. xx. 9. 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. — Eccles. viii. 11. Ps.lv. 19. Woe unto them who draw iniquity,... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 688 pages
...that religion is considered, at least, as a matter of secondary importance. ' 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 if any thing is fitted to awaken the soul from its wretched delusions,... | |
 | Thomas Carpenter (schoolmaster.) - 1828 - 332 pages
...establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thy own desire. Eccle. vi. 7. 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. 11. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 536 pages
...it is true at the present day, no less than in the time of Solomon, 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." To most persons the consciousness of safety, even now, becomes the... | |
 | Joseph Walker - Universalism - 1828 - 116 pages
...it.'i Perhaps Cain reasoned in the same manner, as his genuine descendants. " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully sat in them to do «vil:" Eccl. viii. 11. REASON XX. The preservation of Noah and family in... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 188 pages
...unto another." We see the same judgment at work in disintegrating cultures: "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. 8:11). Here the rape is not being perpetrated by foreign soldiers,... | |
 | Bibles - 1999 - 68 pages
...were forgotten in the city where they had so done; this is also vanity. " 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. "Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged,... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 pages
...they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 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. Though a sinner do evil a hundred tunes, and his days be prolonged,... | |
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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. 
