Verse 7 Is enmity against God. That the natural state of the human heart towards God is that of alienation aversion and hostility, is shown in all the aspects which human nature presents, by every mark which can indicate such feelings. In fact, the whole history of religion in this world is a history of the efforts of conscience to scourge mankind into the performance of their duties to their Maker, and of the endless shifts, contrivances, and evasions, of men struggling to escape from what they cannot endure.--Neither indeed can be; that is, the alienation of the heart from God is not temporary and accidental, but a permanent and fixed characteristic of the soul,--such that, until it is changed, there can no really honest and sincere obedience to the law of God possibly come from the heart which is governed by it.