 | 1849 - 470 Seiten
...great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually "—that "the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." The unregeneraied soul is as "a cage of unclean birds:" it is polluted by sin, and is the... | |
 | Margaret Diane LeCompte - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...by the lustre of his many accomplishments, the saying of the Bible does not fail of being realised, that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; who can know it?" And thus it is, that our great and ultimate aim in the reformation of a... | |
 | Rev. David Hay - 1850 - 118 Seiten
...sinful heart. Whether you confess it or not, I know both from experience and the divine testimony, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; and from this sad and humiliating description, yours is not an exception. A knowledge of your... | |
 | William Paley - 1851 - 766 Seiten
...have no other reason, but that they understand not the dangers and follies of their self-conceits : be found in the day of the Lord, laudable, glorious, wicked ;" deceiving itself, and deceiving others, in innumerable instances ; and being often " in the... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...by the lustre of his many accomplishments, the saying of the Bible does not fail of being realized : that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked : who can know it ? The disciples of John could not have such a clear view of the ground of... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1852 - 428 Seiten
...ostrich escapes its pursuers by thrusting its head in the sand ; nor will it meet the case to say " that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," — that "enmity against God" is the explanation of this enmity to his servants. When the... | |
 | 1852 - 776 Seiten
...solemn fact is before us, that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and while we know that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, what is to save the mass of immortal souls which are lying in this state of darkness around... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1854 - 376 Seiten
...and by actual transgression. It asserts that ' by one man's transgression many were made sinners ; ' that ' the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; ' and it declares in unequivocal language, ' The soul that sinneth, it shall die.' Dreadful... | |
 | Elizabeth Daniel - 1854 - 344 Seiten
...death itself, for His sake who loved me before the worlds were made. But oh, it has been well said that' the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked/ for there are other seasons when a flood of worldliness seems to pour in upon me, and I fear... | |
 | Thomas Fitz Randolph Mercein - 1855 - 298 Seiten
...invective. It declares, negatively, that in the natural mind there dwelleth no good thing; and positively, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. It asserts specifically that there is none that doeth good—no, not one. It arraigns every... | |
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We are told that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. 
