3. Every one of them is gone back. The
whole mass of humanity, all of it, is gone back. In Psalm 14 it was said to turn aside, which was bad enough, but here it is
described as running in a diametrically opposite direction. The life of
unregenerate humanity is in direct defiance of the law of God. They are altogether become filthy. The whole lump is soured with an evil leaven.
Thus, in God’s sight, our atheistic nature is not the pardonable thing that we
think it to be. Errors as to God are not the mild diseases which some account
them; they are abominable evils. There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
This puts an end to the fictions of the innocent savage, the lone patriarch.
The fallen race of man, left to its own energy, has not produced a single lover
of God or doer of holiness, nor will it ever do so. Grace must interpose, or
not one specimen of humanity will be found to follow after the good and true.
This is God’s verdict after looking down upon the race.
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