The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

The Answer is this, David doth here judge according to his sense and feeling, what he was to find at Gods hand by the Law, ¹so that he doth not speak this (according to their divinity) in a way of faith, but sense and failing; and therefore the Author doth compare this with that place, Ps. 31.22. I said in my hast, I am cut off. ²Oh boldness! Shall David be thought in hast and rashness, to say, Against thee have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight? Then all ⟨p. 54⟩the other verses. Have mercy on me, Thou delightest in truth, may be said by David to be spoken in hast. How unpardonable is this error, to make that which was a special tenderness of godly sorrow upon David, to be a part of his humane weakness? But (saith the Author) he speaketh in the Gospel-way afterwards, when he saith, purge me, and I shall be whiter then Snow: But in what sense that is true, you have already heard; when a gross actual sin is committed, is repented of, the sinful act is quite passed away and gone, the guilt by forgiveness is quite extinct, and so, as to that respect, remission of sin doth make us as white as Snow. But it is not thus with original sin, whose guilt though removed, yet the proper stain of it doth still abide; (but of this more, when we declare what that is, which doth denominate a sinner) Therefore David doth not here speak contradictions, but his soul may be made white by Justification, and yet in the committing of new sins, God be angry and much offended with him.

The Answer is this, David doth here judge according to his sense and feeling, what he was to finde at Gods hand by the Law, ¹so that he doth not speak this (according to their divinity) in a way of faith, but sense and failing; and therefore the Author doth compare this with that place, Ps. 31.22. I said in my hast, I am cut off. ²