...great goodness ; according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness, and cleanse me from my sin : For...have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thoumightest bejustified inthysaying.and clear when thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness,...

...like it, we may understand by the preceding words, which are as a preface to these in the objection. " Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil...justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged." He that thus acquits God, cannot easily be supposed, in the very next breath, so fiercely to accuse...

...mine hqad: and are .like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear. Aga-inst thee have I sinned, and done evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged. O give me the comfort of thy help again: cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy...

...it. The wisest way to know things, is following them home to their causes. Thus David, Psalm li. 5, " Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me." 2. Atheism. Though there is in the consciences of all men an indelible conviction of a Deity, so that...

...apparent also in the words of David ; " Against thee only have I done this evil ; * ut tu justificeris,' ' that" thou mightest be justified' in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged * :" that is, if I be a sinner, then art thou righteous and just in all the evils thou inflictest....

...signifies 'although.' 49. But the great outcry in this question is upon confidence of the words of David; " Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me b." To which I answer, that the words are a Hebraism, and signify nothing but an aggrandation of his...

...nercies do away niine offences. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness ; and cleanse me "rom my sin ; 3 for I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me. 'I Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy ig'-t, that thou mightest be ¡a»tilled...

...acknowledge my trangressions ; and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have 1 sinned, and done this evil in thy sight ; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in *in...

...acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight : that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest [in condemnation], and be clear when Thou judgest," &c. This is the language of...

...acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me. — Against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did...