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title: 'The Deceitful and Wicked Heart'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'John Matthews'
date: 1834-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Sin'
- 'Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Jeremiah 17'
- 'Romans 1'
- 'Acts 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/matthews-1834-the-deceitful-and-wicked-heart
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# The Deceitful and Wicked Heart

Sermon on Jeremiah 17:9: the human heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, universally prone to self-deception and impenitence. Only divine regeneration and the atonement can destroy this entrenched sin.

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