"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Jer. 17:9.
The heart of man is like a barren field,
And fruit to God was never known to yield; Its choicest flowers are but cultured weeds, While thorns and thistles are its native seeds: Nay, more than this, there lies beneath the soil Far worse than what appears, however vile; For there lies buried, to the heart innate,
To God, and all His grace, a thorough hate.