(1.) The will is depraved.
John V, 40. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Eph. II, 3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Rom. VIII, 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Job XXI, 15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Psalm LXXXI, 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Prov. I, 24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25. But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof.
Zech. VII, 11. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.