THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S ignorance. If the fault be in the affec tions, through some sudden passion or blinding, the sin thence arising is a sin of infirmity, but if the understanding be completely informed and not trans ported with the incursion of any sudden perturbation, the greatest blame re mains upon the will, resolvedly bent upon evil. The sin arising is a wilful presumption. — Sanderson. May God keep us back from presumptuous sins. It is an evil man’s cross to be restrained and a good man’s joy to be kept back from sin.—Sedgwick. The great trans gression. As in the motions of a stone falling from the brow of a hill, it is easily stopped at first but when once it is set agoing, who shall stay it? Ob serve the first motions of the heart to check and stop it there.—Satter. Take special heed of those sins that come near to the sin against the Holy Ghost. i —Russell. v. 14. Words and meditation ac ceptable. It did not satisfy him that his actions were well witnessed unto men on earth unless his very thoughts were witnessed to by the Lord in heav en.—Caryl. Thou only, O Lord, canst hallow my tongue and hallow my heart that my tongue may speak and my heart may think that which may be acceptable unto thee.—Lake. Harmony of heart and lips are needful for acceptance with God.—Sel. 2 Tim. 3:16. All Scripture given by inspiration. R. V. “All inspired Scrip ture.” There is absolutely no warrant in the Greek text for putting “is” after “inspired” instead of before it. The whole Bible is inspired (2 Pet. 1:21). There is overwhelming proof that the Bible not merely coiitains the word of God but is the Word of God.—Torrey. The Revised Version translation at this point is a serious and dangerous error. Any school boy would know without being told that every writing that is inspired of God is also profitable. Paul never wasted time and ink to write a
860 “none can understand,” much less then utter all his sins.—Bradford. There are sins which are committed either in the times of ignorance or else with un observance. Either of these may be so heaped up in the number of them that if we should take the brightest candle to search all the records of our souls, yet many of them would escape our no tice. We cannot understand all our debts but the Lord can search the heart, and the more grace has traversed and increased in the soul, the fuller discov eries will it make of sin.—-Sedgwick. We have sins that are deeper than human consciousness. Only the Holy Spirit through the Word of God can bring them to light.—Johnson. Learn to s ee thy spots. A man may have a mole on his back and himself never know it. Cleanse me from my secret faults. The sight of sins is a great happiness for it causes an ingenious confession.—Adams. These are not sins of omission but acts committed when at the time, he did not suppose that what he did was sin. So deceitful is sin. Want of knowledge of God’s Word and too little tenderness of conscience hide it from us.—A. Bonar. Secret sins like private conspirators must be hunted out or they may do deadly mischief-Tr- Sel. Happy souls, who under a sense of peace through the blood of Jesus are daily praying to be kept by the grace of the. Spirit. Far will they be from flat tering themselves into a deceitful notion that they are perfect and have no sin in them. The Spirit of truth delivers them from such errors.—Mason. v. 13. Presumptuous sins. There is a great difference between infirmities and presumptuous sins. Secret faults are of daily and almost hourly incur sion. We cannot live without them, yet we must be cleansed from them. Great staring sins except we be kept back from them will have dominion over us. —Capel. When the understanding is most at fault, it is properly a sin of
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