Fair pictures
How widely different is this from the fair pictures of human nature which men have drawn in all ages! The writings of many of the ancients abound with bright descriptions of the dignity of man, whom some of them paint as having all virtue and happiness in his composition, or at least entirely in his power, without being beholden to any other being: yes, as self-sufficient, able to live on his own stock, and little inferior to God himself.
1771 text
1. HOW widely different is this from the fair pictures of human nature, which men have drawn in all ages! The writings of many of the antients abound with gay descriptions of the dignity of man: whom some of them paint as having all virtue and happiness in his composition, or at least, entirely in his power, without being beholden to any other being: yea, as self-sufficient, able to live on his own stock, and little inferior to God himself.
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Sermon 44 in the 1771 Works. Genesis 6:5.
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