The prophets agree
And this is certain: the Scripture gives us no reason to think otherwise of them. On the contrary, all the passages of Scripture cited above refer to those who lived after the Flood. It was above a thousand years after that God declared by David concerning the children of men: They are all gone out of the way of truth and holiness; there is none righteous, no, not one (Psalm 14:3; Romans 3:10). And to this all the prophets bear witness, in their several generations. So Isaiah, concerning God's peculiar people (and certainly the Heathens were in no better condition): The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores (Isaiah 1:5-6). The same account is given by all the apostles, yes, by the whole tenor of the oracles of God. From all these we learn, concerning man in his natural state, unassisted by the grace of God, that all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart are still evil, only evil, and that continually.
1771 text
1. And this is certain, the scripture gives us no reason, to think any otherwise of them. On the contrary, all the above-cited passages of scripture, refer to those who lived after the flood. It was above a thousand years after, that God declared by David concerning the children of men, They are all gone out of the way of truth and holiness, there is none righteous, no, not one. And to this bear all the prophets witness, in their several generations. So Isaiah, concerning God’s peculiar people, (and certainly the Heathens were in no better condition) The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness, but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores. The same account is given by all the apostles, yea, by the whole tenor of the oracles of God. From all these we learn, concerning man in his natural state, unassisted by the grace of God, that all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart are still evil, only evil, and that continually.
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Sermon 44 in the 1771 Works. Genesis 6:5.
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