| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 512 pages
...on all sides of this administration of Providence. ' Because sentence,' says the Preacher, ' against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.' That the case was so, he acknowleges : ' For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...hardened, and it has made you the more presumptuous in sin. Ectles. viii. I1. " Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." You have been guilty of despising the riches of bis goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...apt to conclude the threatenings of Scripture to be mere empty words. Thus " 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. But " he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed,... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 560 pages
...behold the upright ; for the end of that man is peace." (Psal. xxxvii. 37.) " 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 though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know, that... | |
| Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city whore they had so done : this is also vanity. 11 sh ; and he looked, and, behold the bush burned with...3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see t 12 If Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it... | |
| Lewis Sperry Chafer - Religion - 1993 - 868 pages
...lPet.3:20; 2 Pet. 3:9, 15), and His striving (Gen. 6:3). The wise man has written, "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. 8:11). The certainty of judgment for those who despise divine patience is assured (Matt. 24:48-51;... | |
| Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...men, to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous" (8:14), "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" (11). CHAPTER 6 The Sign of the Covenant Betty Rojtman The covenant God proposes to Israel is the very... | |
| Bible - 1856 - 210 pages
...and open before He exercises judgment. The world takes advantage of this. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." (Eccles. viii, 11.) It is the principle and the practice of infidelity all through : it was the history... | |
| I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor - Philosophy - 1994 - 318 pages
...good before God" (2: 26). The "Protestant ethic" rests on a risky premiss: "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" (8: 11). In short, material success can no more be regarded a viable objective in its own right as... | |
| Ethelbert W. Bullinger - Religion - 1996 - 150 pages
...in their ranks, or left for the judgment that they will execute. And now "because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." As it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they... | |
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