DEPRAVITY OF NATURE.

Let a man be as devout as is possible for the law and the holiness

of the law. Yet if the principles from which he acts be but the

habit of soul, the purity, as he feigns, of his own

nature--principles of natural reason, or the dictates of human

nature; all this is nothing else but the old gentleman in his

holiday clothes: the old heart, the old spirit, the spirit of the

man, not the spirit of Christ, is here.

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