LORD, you made man upright, but they have sought out many
you are faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:8, 9.
3. WE MUST THEREFORE CONFESS AND BEWAIL OUR ORIGINAL CORRUPTION IN THE FIRST PLACE, THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF APOSTATE AND REBELLIOUS PARENTS, AND THE NATURE OF MAN
IS DEPRAVED, AND WRETCHEDLY DEGENERATED FROM ITS PRIMITIVE PURITY AND RECTITUDE, LORD, you made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions; And being in honor did not understand, and therefore abode not, but became like the beasts that perish. Ecclesiastes 7:29.
By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned; By that one man's disobedience many were made sinners, and we among the rest.
We are a seed of evil doers; our father was an Amorite, and our mother a Hittite, and we ourselves were called (and not miscalled) transgressors from the womb, and you knew we would deal very treacherously. Isaiah 1:4. Ezekiel 16:3. Isaiah 48:8.
The nature of man was planted a choice and noble vine, wholly a right seed, but it is become the degenerate plant of a strange vine, producing the grapes of Sodom, and the clusters of Gomorrah.