The Antediluvian World (2)

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually . . . . And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth. Gen. 6:5-7a Apparently the exponents of the theory of common grace may marshal the above selection to the defense of the proposition to the effect that natural man's heart is not a haven of exclusively evil imaginations and pur­poses. For as man's wholly evil...