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loving kindness. What a choice word Is that of our English version: love ana kindness sweetly blended in one.— Spurgeon. According to the multitude of thy mercies. Men are greatly terri fied at the multitude of their sins but here is a comfort— our God has a multi tude of mercies. If our sins be in num ber as the hairs on our head, God’s mercies are as the stars of heaven.— Symson. Blot out. David asks for seven actions regarding his sins : ( 1) Blot out. (2) Wash me from. (3) Cleanse me. (4) Purge me. (5) Create in me a clean lieart, (6) Renew a right spirit. (7) Up hold me.—K. B. My revolts, my- ex cesses, are all recorded against me, but Lord, erase the lines, draw Thy pen through the register, even though now it seems engraven in the rock forever.— Treas. of David. My transgressions. Conscience when it is healthy, ever speaks thus—miy transgressions.— Rob ertson. v. 2. Wash me thoroughly. Not enough to blot out the sin. His person is defiled and he would fain be puri fied.— Spurgeon. Literally “ multiply to wash me.” Wash and wash and wash again, till the last stain is gone.— Sei. Cleanse me. It is from the guilt and not from' the punishment that he asks de liverance.— Ambrose. A more general expression than at first, as if to say, “ If washing will not do, try some other process. Try fire— anything so that I may be made clean.”— Brooks. v. 3. I acknowledged my transgres sions. Confession brings sin out of its hiding place.—Haldeman. My sin ever before me. It is necessary to get our sins before ourselves before we can get them before God for forgiveness.— Sèi. It is never out of my mind. It continu ally oppresses my spirit. I lay it before Thee because it is ever before me. Put it away both from Thee and me.— Spur geon. Thoroughly convinced of it, con tinually troubled in mind about it, humbled under the sense of it, possessed of those dreads of conscience which may never let us enjoy any quiet within our own breast till we have reconciled our selves to a gracious God for it.— Little ton. v. 4. Against Thee only. In the strictest sense sin can only be against God. We count offenses, injuries, crimes against men but sins only against God. -—Torrey. All wrong doing comes to a climax at the foot of the divine throne. —Sei. How can sin be committed
against any but against Him only whose law we transgress?— Baker. In thy sight. For a thief to steal in the very sight of the judge is the highest piece of impu dence and thus it is for any man to of fend in the sight of God and not to be moved with it.—Horton. v. 5. I was shapen in iniquity. Not only have I sinned once but I am in very nature a sinner. The fountain is pol luted as well ai the streams.— Spurgeon. With one eye cast on myself, I see how infinitely corrupt I am in the very con stitution of my nature, and iwith the other eye I behold and consider what an infinitely holy God Thou art in Thy na ture and being.— Goodwin/ That thou mightest be justified. Thou canst not pronounce so hard a sentence against me which I am not worthy of. If Thou judge me to torture it is but mildness, if to death, it is but my due. I cannot say Thou art unjust.— Baker. v. 6. Thou desirest truth in the in ward parts. Heart fidelity is the demand of God. He cares not for the pretense of purity. He looks to the mind, heart and soul.— Treas. of David. He is a Christian who is one inwardlym-Ball. In the hidden part. It is one thing to be wise headed and wise tongued and an other to be wise heartedS-Murcot. v. 7. Purge with hyssop. Hyssop was a low shrub (1 Kings 4:33) With which the blood and water of purifica tion were applied
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