OF HUMAN NATURE. 283 of Divine truth, to humble man, under a sense of his inherent and actual cor- ruptions. The natural man feels it re- pugnant to his pride to suppose this doctrine is addressed to him. - It is very true, that this all-important doctrine of human corruption, is, like many other truths, both in the natu- ral, moral, and spiritual world, liable to certain speculative objections, and meta- physical difficulties. Laying hold on these, which, often, a child might dis cover, and no philosopher be able to answer, even upon merely philosophical principles, we excuse ourselves altogether from studying the Divine book ; and fearful, in secret, of the discoveries we should make, pretend that its Author has left truth so obscure, as to be impervious to human eyes ; or so lofty, as to be above human reach. But is it not making God unjust, and even the author of that sin which he charges on ourselves, to suppose that he had put truth and knowledge out
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