His heart, which was a sufficiently bad heart to begin with, is now so exercised in evil and so accustomed to evil, that,--how can he be born again when he is so old and so ill-natured?
All the qualities, all the passions, all the emotions of his heart are out of joint; their bent is bad; they run out naturally to mischief.

Now, what could possibly be more ill-conditioned than to judge and sentence, denounce and execute a man before you have heard his case?
What could be more ill-conditioned than positively to be afraid lest you should be led to forgive, and redress, and love, and act with another man?
To be determined not to hear one word that you can help in his defence, in his favour, and in his praise?
Could a human heart be in a worse state on this side hell itself than that?
Nay, that is hell itself in your evil heart already.

Let prejudice and partiality have their full scope among the wicked passions of your ill-conditioned heart, and lo! the kingdom of darkness is already within you.

Not, lo, here! or, lo, there! but within you.

Look to yourselves, says John to us all, full as we all are of our own ill-conditions.