corrupted and depraved; that this is his natural state, his state as he is born, and in which he remains until he is born again; so that every man, without any exception, may say with David, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.” And when he adds, “that which is born of the Spirit is spirit,” he intimates, indeed, that there are now two classes of men in the world—the one natural, the other spiritual—the one regenerate, the other unregenerate; but that this arises