ABSTRACT

Depravity not innate, natural, &c. Universality of sin. In what sense. Both sin and virtue appear early. Neither of them implies an entire change of nature. Both are in the same degree spontaneous. Virtuous dispositions not more easily eradicated than vicious. In what sense it is certain that every child born into the world will be a sinner. As certain that, in the same sense, it will be a saint.