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,…

Secondly, As he found hell thus within him, So God was also really displeased, his sins were uncancelled till he repented. So that Gods displeasure was not only in Davids sense and feeling, but in Gods heart also. As the earth of his own heart was like iron, in respect of the yielding any fruit of comfort, so the Heavens were like brass. God had spoke to his soul to be like the mountains of Gilboa, on which no dew of his favour shall fall. Therefore he doth not only pray for pardon, but plenty and iteration of pardon, Multiply to pardon, as vers. 2. I need pardon again and again, I need a plentiful pardon, because I have sinned many sins in one sin. Now David might justly be more solicitous and fearful about the pardon of these sins, because there was no particular Sacrifice appointed for murder and adultery, but an expectation of vengeance, either from God or man, but this must not be stretched to the Socinian errors, as before I have showed.

Secondly, As he found hell thus within him, So God was also really displeased, his sins were uncancelled till he repented. So that Gods displeasure was not only in Davids sense and feeling, but in Gods heart also. As the earth of his own heart was like iron, in respect of the yeelding any fruit of comfort, so the Heavens were like brasse. God had spoke to his soul to be like the mountains of Gilboa, on which no dew of his favour shall fall. Therefore he doth not only pray for pardon, but plenty and iteration of pardon, Multiply to pardon, as vers. 2. I need pardon again and again, I need a plentiful pardon, because I have sinned many sins in one sin. Now David might justly be more solicitous and fearfull about the pardon of these sins, because there was no particular Sacrifice appointed for murder and adultery, but an expectation of vengeance, either from God or man, but this must not be stretched to the Socinian errours, as before I have shewed.

Thirdly, He found in himself a loathsomeness, and defiling guilt upon his conscience, whereby like Adam, he could run and hide himself, that God might not see him. Hereupon he prayeth, Wash me, Cleanse me, Purge me. O how loathsome and abominable was he in his own eyes: if Davids Righteousness be accounted ⟨p. 228⟩