Stephen Charnock

From Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; they are corrupt, they have done abominable Works: there is none that doth good. THIS Psalm is a description of the deplorable corruption by Nature of every Son of Adam, since the withering of that Common Root. Some restrain it to the Gentiles, as a Wilderness full of Bryars and Thorns, as not concerning the Jews, the Garden of God, planted by his Grace, and watered by the Dew of Heaven. But the Apostle, the best Interpreter, rectifies this in extending it by name to Jews, as well as Gentiles, Rom. 3.9. [We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin.] And v. 10.11, 12. Cites part of his Psalm and other passages of Scripture for the further evidence of it, concluding by Jews and Gentiles, every person in the world naturally in this…

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