If any man is determined to turn Scripture upside down and pervert the truth, he may escape from the doctrine of the total depravity of the human race; but surely if we take the Bible as it stands, we may boldly say that if it does not teach that man is evil, thoroughly evil, then it does not teach anything at all, the book is without meaning of any kind. Man is thoroughly evil; the heart is bad through and through to its very core, it is infected with sin and hatred of God in its centre and essence. You never heard a saint on his knees yet tell the Lord that he had a good nature, that he did not need renewing.

Saints, as they grow in grace, are made to feel more and more acutely the evil of their old nature. You will find that those who are most like Christ have the deepest knowledge of their own depravity, and are most humble while they confess their sinfulness. Those men who know not their own hearts may be able to boast, but that is simple ignorance, for if you will take down the biographies of any persons esteemed among us for holiness and for knowledge in the things of God, they will find them frequently crying out under a sense of inward carnality and sin.

She was, doubtless, one of the excellent of the earth, and yet, excellent as she was, it could not but be otherwise that in sin her son was conceived. Let us not at all attempt to escape from the force of what David says. He is using no hyperbolical expressions; there is no indication of hyperbole throughout the whole Psalm; he is a broken-hearted man on his knees; he is confessing his own sin with Bathsheba, and is not likely either to bring an accusation against his own mother, or to use exaggerated terms.

Beloved it is so; we all of us, the best of us, still have to bear about with us the marks of the unclean thing from which we sprang. Still I think we have another proof, namely, our own observation, We have lived long enough to observe with our own eyes, and by our reading, that sin is the universal disease of manhood. They used to tell pretty tales about the charming innocence of men dwelling in the sylvan bowers of primeval forests, untainted by the vices of civilization, unpolluted by the inventions of commerce and art. The woods of America were searched, and no such sweet babes of grace were discovered.

The ferocity and cruelty of the Indians justify me in saying that they were hateful and hating one another. Travellers have penetrated of late into the centre of Africa, where we may expect to see nature in its primitive excellence, and what is the report that is brought back to us? Why, it is nature in its primitive devilry, that is all. Let such abominable tyrants as Messrs. Grant and Speke describe to us, indicate to us what man is when he is left in his primeval state, untainted by civilization: Again, try the mildest races.

There is the mild Hindoo. You look into his gentle face, and you cannot suppose him capable of cruelty. The life of the most respectable Hindoo is tainted with vices too vile to mention. Your child without evil! Look at the men who make illustrious the page of history, — look at Socrates, for instance— religion did nothing for Socrates, but yet what a fine character he was.

We know from undoubted authority that the purest philosophers at times indulged in bestiality and filth. Solon and Socrates were no exceptions. When infidels hold up these sages as being such patterns of what human nature might become, they have history dead against them. Good reasoning, but most extraordinary. In the sixth chapter he said man was evil, and therefore he destroyed him. In the eighth chapter, he says man is evil from his youth, and therefore he will not destroy him. Is then natural depravity an excuse for sin? Does God use it as such? Yet there is this one thing, we are born sinners, and God sees there, I will say, a sort of loophole.

Rightly upon the terms of Justice, there is no conceivable reason why he should have mercy upon us, but grace makes and invents a reason. O may I be helped, while I try to show you where I think the ground of mercy here lies. Devils fell separately; we have every reason to believe that every alien angel sinned on his own account, and fell, and it is very likely that on this account there was no possibility, as we know of, of their restoration; every separate fallen spirit was given up for ever to chains, and darkness, and flames of five. Men did not fall separately and individually.

Our case is a somewhat different one from that of fallen angels. We all of us fell without our own consent, without having, in fact, any finger in it actually. We fell federally in our covenant head; it is in consequence of our falling in Adam, that our heart becomes evil from our youth. They perished in one Adam, I will save them in another. They fell not by their own overt act, though indeed their own overt acts have added to this and deserved my wrath, but their first fall was not through themselves; they are sinful from their very infancy. I bless God that I did not fall first of all myself.

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