Total Depravity (7)



Men have a sort of satisfaction in their natural condition: a whole man desires no physician. A dead man hath some negative content to lie in grave; he can have no acts of sorrow for want of life. (2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: a child in the belly hath no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature; as an ape, or a horse, hath no desire to be a man.
But, if we seriously in the sense of our own vileness humble ourselves this day before our God, Do our sins trouble us? he will discharge them; Is he departed? This will cause him to return, and heal our Land. Would we gain audience this day? the prayer of the humble self-abhorring soul cannot miscarry
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If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?
For as a body, while it contains and fosters the cause and matter of disease, cannot be called healthy, although pain is not actually felt; so a soul, while teeming with such seeds of vice, cannot be called sound.
Institutes, Book 2 Chapter 3
The human mind receives a humbling blow when all the thoughts which proceed from it are derided as foolish, frivolous, perverse, and insane.
Institutes, Book 2 Chapter 3
When the Spirit describes men under the term "darkness," he declares them void of all power of spiritual intelligence.
Institutes, Book 2, Chapter 2

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