...this mystery. Innumerable evils have compassed me about, is the prophetic language of the Psalmist, mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...hairs of mine head, therefore my heart faileth me, Ps. xl. 12. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement...

...repent in dust and ashes." David the man after God's own heart exclaims in the bitterness of his sold, " innumerable evils have compassed me about ; mine iniquities...me, so that I am not able to look up, they are more in number than the hairs of my head ; therefore my heart faileth me. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities,...

...inconceivable burden ! Is the bearer of such a burden chargeable with any exaggeration, when he cries, " My iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not...look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head?" 1 Pet. ii. 25. This passage being thus explained, we affirm, there is nothing in this psalm, which...

...burden, they are too heavy for me. — 1 will declare .mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin. — Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I...not able to look up: they are more than the hairs of my head. — I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." The Prophet Isaiah cried...

...a multitude of sins. One of God's children had so many sins, that they terrified him. Psalm xl. 12, "Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that...able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of my head." Beside these sins, there are secret sins. " Cleanse thou me from my secret faults." How often...

...prevent its free access to the throne. Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, says the Psalmist, 50 that I am not able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head, therefore my heart fail* f,th me, The spirit of prayer is also believing. Numerous and aggravated as his sins appear;...

...have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight h." " Mine iniqui« Job xiii. 26. h Ps. li. 3, 4. ties have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to...hairs of mine head ; therefore my heart faileth me '." Thus the backsliding believer, is sent back again to mount Sinai, where he finds the devouring...

...revives, and with irresistible fierce^ ness appears ready to devour. " Mine iniquities," he cries, " have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head : therefore, my heart faileth me." Trembling, yet hoping, he adds, " Be pleased, O Lord, to...

...David, in the midst of great outward affliction, makes this the heaviest part of his complaint ; " For innumerable evils have compassed me about ; mine...not able to look up: they are more than the hairs of my head ; therefore my heart faileth me." (Ps. xl. 12.) But no sooner had -he confessed his transgression...

...with propriety, as our surety and substitute; as in Ps. xl. 12. " Innumerable evils have encompassed me about, mine iniquities have taken hold upon me,...able to look up : they are more than the hairs of my head ; therefore my heart faileth me," &c. Strong as this language undoubtedly is, it is not too...