Rom. XI, 8. According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.
Jonah I, 6. So the shipmaster came unto him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Rom. VII, 18. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19. For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom. VII, 23. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
(6.) Man's Utter Helplessness.
Rom. V, 6. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Eph. II, 1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Eph. II, 5. Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets.