Wholly evil
Now God saw that all this, the whole of it, was evil: contrary to moral rectitude, contrary to the nature of God, which necessarily includes all good, contrary to the divine will, the eternal standard of good and evil, contrary to the pure, holy image of God in which man was originally created, and in which he stood when God, surveying the works of his hands, saw them all to be very good (Genesis 1:31), contrary to justice, mercy, and truth, and to the essential relations which each man bore to his Creator and his fellow creatures.
1771 text
3. Now God saw that all this, the whole thereof was evil, contrary to moral rectitude; contrary to the nature of God, which necessarily includes all good; contrary to the divine will, the eternal standard of good and evil: contrary to the pure, holy image of God, wherein man was originally created, and wherein he stood when God surveying the works of his hands, saw them all to be very good: contrary to justice, mercy and truth, and to the essential relations which each man bore to his Creator and his fellow creatures.
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Sermon 44 in the 1771 Works. Genesis 6:5.
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