...not alter the hideous portrait : The Lord, says he, looked down from heaven upon the children of men; to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. And the result of the divine inspection is : They are all gone aside, they are altogether become Jilthy...

...me. The wicked are estranged from the womb : they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children...any that did understand, and seek God. They are all ii;one aside, they are altogether become filthy : there is none that doeth good, no, not one. There...

...There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children...there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy : there is none that doeth good, no,...

...justified, and shall glory." IT is the solemn declaration of the inspired writer of the Psalms, that "The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children...there were any that did understand and seek God." When this survey of the sons of Adam was made, hy the All-seeing Jehovah, it appears, that all flesh...

...have depended on our voluntarily giving our hearts, he needed not to have demanded them. But, alas ! " the Lord looked. down from heaven upon the children...see if there were any that did understand, and seek after God. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good,...

...most profligate, but is common to every individual of the apostate descendants of Adam. " They archil gone aside ; they are altogether become filthy. There is none that doeth good, no not one." "Vain man would be wise, though he is born like the wild ass's colt." But what can be a more...

...understand 1 seek God :" and what was tine result of r? "They are all gone aside," he declares,. " they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good ; no, not one." They are indiscriminately pronounced children of nrath ; they have not merely forfeited that...

...represented, by another infallible witness, as " looking down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God ;" to ascertain if there was an individual among the numerous offspring of Adam who retained his integrity...

...corrupted all our hearts: and she made him repeat the following words till he could say them quite well : The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children...none that doeth good, no, not one. Psalm xiv. 2, 3. She next made the little boy understand that eternal death, or everlasting punishment, is the consequence...

...character of rebels against their Sovereign. And yet sin prevails every where throughout our world. " The Lord looked down " from heaven upon the children...become filthy : there " is none that doeth good ; no, not one"." a Ps. \i v. 2, 3. To this general corruption of mankind, the miseries of individuals, of...