...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...

...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...

...the manner and connection in which we find them in the Oracles of God. While we shall declare to you, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; — that in our flesh dwelleth no thing that is good;- — that there is none righteous, no...

...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 an equally...

...that none but God can conquer them ? Is there any impiety in crediting the testimony of the Prophet, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ? and in supposing that even men of learning deceive themselves, when they talk of a self-determining power...

...themselves. They contend that " their heart is good," forgetting the statement of Omniscience itself, that " the heart of man " is deceitful above all things, and desperately " wicked." They seem unconscious that the fall of mankind has so completely changed our moral condition,...

...inveterate spiritual disease has over* spread all the individuals of all the families upon earth ; insomuch, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and the imaginations of his thoughts are only evil, and that continually. The fall of Adam is represented,...

...inveterate spiritual disease has overspread all the individuals of all the families upon earth ; insomuch, that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and the imaginations of his thoughts are only evil, and that continually. The fall of Adam is represented,...

...friends, you have lived long enough to obtain a deep conviction of the truth of the prophet's declaration, that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Your hearts have often betrayed the confidence which you have reposed in them ; and they are...

...others, but unboundedly indulgent 1o itself, which are the sins especially pointed at in the words, that " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." The Roman generals now sailed for Italy, leaving Charops all powerful among the remaining...