...a direct and easy solution to all difficulties. He quotes the words of Holy Writ; and, assuring us that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," he flatters himself that in the besetting corruption of human nature the source of all the outrages upon...

...a direct and easy solution to all difficulties. He quotes the words of Holy Writ; and, assuring us that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," he natters himself that in the besetting corruption of human nature the source of all the outrages upon...

...partake of the bliss of eternity, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. 0 LORD, Thou hast told as in Thy word that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, that the imaginations of his heart are only evil continually, and we know, from our own sad...

...I hope by the grace of God, still to preach the utter sinfulness and depravity of man by nature — that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, so that it is correct to say of each human being, 'in him dwellcth no good thing.' We ought...

...if He be not, then He ceases to be God. There is no alternative. When the Inspired writings declare that the " heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked,"* and that "death hath passed on all men, for that all have sinned ;"f this, with many other...

...and hearts upon that which he tells us is but vanity; this is (if nothing else were) a demonstration that the heart of man is ' deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.' On the other hand, that a Being so infinitely great should condescend to invite us to our...

...child, our little girl had daily occasions to grieve for her manifold sins, and knew by sad experience that' the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked!' But I must now inform you of the cause of the children's haste. The last time Mr. Stanley...

...we have done what our evil nature inclined us to do. What has God told us in regard to our hearts ? That " The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," and, "he that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool." What besides have we done ? We have offended...

...very wrong in saying there is nothing bad in this sinful heart of mine. God tells us, in his own word, that ' the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,' and that ' as in water, face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man;' all the thoughts...

...ministers would intend to do that which the church proposed to do. On the other hand when we consider that the heart of man " is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked;" that one Pope was a woman; that many popes have been the most abandoned and wicked of men...