...slave, or any one for that change of heart, which a supplicant well m the throne of His grace, who has declared that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," and who has expressly commanded us to pray that " a new heart" may be put within us'— we...

...many days. How common and how melancholy a case is this; and how completely does such conduct prove, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ! Were it not so, as an increase of cares and anxieties crowded upon us, • we should feel...

...said is but a paraphrase, and that an imperfect one, upon that full text of the prophet Jeremy — ' That the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?' — It is a depth never to be fathomed, and a mystery never to be thoroughly...

...in this frame, I took hold of an old Bible belonging to one of the crew, and read it. There I read that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. I soon found th;it sin was the cause of all my misery. I took every opportunity to borrow a...

...savage state of man, appears to us a phenomenon in the history of the human heart totally unaccountable. That " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," is a melancholy truth, which not Scripture alone, but the history of mankind in all ages and...

...have no other reason, but that they understand not the dangers and follies of their self-conceits : that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;" deceiving itself and deceiving others, in innumerable instances; and being often " in the...

...said is but a paraphrase, and that an imperfect one, upon that full text of the prophet Jeremy — ' That the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?' — It is a depth never to be fathomed, and a mystery never to be thoroughly...

...matter of fact. What he calls abstruse doctrines, are facts. ' We are told,' says Mr. Dale Owen, ' that the heart of man " is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." And it is undeniable, that the present character of mankind is neither a sincere nor a virtuous...

...matter of fact. What he calls abstruse doctrines, are facts. ' We are told,' says Mr. Dale Owen, ' that the heart of man " is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." And it is undeniable, that the present character of mankind is neither a sincere nor a virtuous...

...end to give me a new and upright one. How could it shew your heart ? said I. Why, said he, it told me that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; that the very thought of foolishness is sin ; told me that all the wickedness that ever I...