And whilst the nature of the soul itself and its faculties, are so much unknown to itself, the nature of original pravity and righteousness must needs be very much unknown.
And thispravity or inherent, original sin may two ways be said to be mortified radically, or virtually, or inceptively before any inherent change in them: 1.
And then the inherent pravity was the effect of that act of their ancestors, which is forgiven them.
This removes the high and holy God infinitely above the contamination of all evil, above all contact with the sin of the world, and shows an impassable gulf between the purity of the Creator and the pravity of the creature.
Or as Leibnitz elsewhere says, God is the author of all that is positive in our volitions, and the pravity of them arises from the necessary imperfection of the creature.
Think not that any change of the form of government, would cure that which is caused by the people's sin, or the common pravity of human nature.
Do you not know the frailty of the best, and the common pravity of human nature?
Not but that some sin of the heart or will doth still go first, but yet the extraordinary declension and pravity of the heart, may sometimes be caused by the errors of the judgment, or the life.
He that will train up children for God, must begin betimes, before sensitive objects take too deep possession of their hearts, and custom increase the pravity of their nature.
We have nature in its pravity with us after our conversion; and we have our own fleshly characteristics also, as well as the common pravity of nature.
Now, the judgments passed internally on the rectitude or pravity of actions, or the moral sentiments, are precisely alike with all men.
However the persuasion is come by, it will serve as a conscience; which conscience is nothing else than our own opinion of the rectitude or pravity of our actions.
The mistaken antithesis between temporal and spiritual things runs into the greatest excess, wherever the inherentpravity of human nature is most exaggerated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pravity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
