...the Romans has quoted this passage of David, and the application which he makes of it is to describe the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works; of him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifietll the ungodly; and his language has been...

...The Lord hath heard my supplication: the • lord hath received my prayer. PSAL. xxxi. Beati quorum. BLESSED are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and...whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Because I was silent, my bones grew...

...IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS without works;" the words are, " Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered : Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin," ver. 6, 7, 8. Now if to have one's sins forgiven, covered, or not imputed, be a proper description...

...Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered" (Ps. xxxii. 1 :) " Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." (Rom. iv. 7') But I would not quit the subject without hinting at a reason or two why a sense of pardon, ascertained...

...for his sake he will not impute their sin. " As David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works ; saying,...the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."-)- ' Cometh this blessedness,' according to Dr. Owen, "upon the inter•veniency" of "a donation "of righteousness...

...righteousness, and immediately represents it as consisting in remission of sins. '* David," says he, " describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God...saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven," &c. (y) He there indeed argues not concerning a branch, but the whole of justification. He also adduces...

...righteous by it ; they do not make themselves righteous by it. Imputation is also the act of God. " Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness." The righteousness then is the work of Christ, his own obedience to his Father's law : the making of...

...evident that he was not justified in any wise by the works of the ceremonial law, by Rom. iv. 6 — 8. " Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the...is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." It is plain that the apostle is here speaking of justification, from the preceding verse, and all the...

...of whom it cannot be said that he was justified by works, for he supposes him to have been a sinner, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,...Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, or who will not condemn him for the sins that he has formerly committed. Are they, then, those of the...

...chapter. Thus in the next verses but one to the text, " Blessed are they," saith he, " whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered : Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." To him thatis justified or forgiven, God will not impute tin to his condemnation. — He will not condemn...