A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm

Peter also is in Heaven. Christ prayed for him that his faith should not fail; and in his death he glorified God, John 21. 19.

So is Paul. He also is in Heaven; he knew that when he was dissolved he should be with Christ. Here then we are encompassed about with a cloud of witnesses. For,

So is Paul. He also is in Heaven; he knew that when he wis dissolved he should be with Christ. Here then we are encompassed about with a cloud of witnesses. For,

1. It is most certain, that they were all sinners; They were all so by nature; for therein there is no difference between any of the Children of men. And personally they were sinners also. They confessed so of themselves, and some of the sins of all of them stand upon record. Yea some of them were great sinners, or guilty of great and signal miscarriages. Some before their Conversion, as Abraham who was an Idolater, ⟨p. 154⟩Josh. 24. 2, 3. and Paul who was a Persecutor and a Blasphemer. Some after their Conversion. Some in sins of the flesh against their Obedience, as David; and some in sins of Profession against saith, as Peter. Nothing then is more evident, than that no one of them came to rest with God but by forgiveness. Had they never been guilty of any one sin, but only what is left upon Record concerning them in Holy Writ, yet they could be saved no other way. For he that transgresseth the Law in any one point is guilty of the breach of the whole,