Concerning the EXTENT of this vast moral disease of man called sin, let us beware that we make no mistake. The only safe ground is that which is laid for us in Scripture.
“Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart,“ the Bible tells us in Gen. 6:5 is by nature, quote, evil, and that continually.
Jeremiah 17:9 tells us, ”The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
Sin is a disease, which pervades and runs through every part of our moral constitution and every faculty of our minds. Our understanding, our affections, our reasoning powers, our will are all infected.
Even the conscience is so blinded that it cannot be depended on as a sure guide, and is as likely to lead men wrong as right, unless it is enlightened by the Holy Ghost.
In short, “from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness” about us. Isaiah 1:6.
The disease may be veiled under a thin covering of courtesy, politeness, good manners, and outward decorum; but it lies deep down in the constitution.
