7. Remember not the sins of my youth. Sin is the
stumbling-block. This is the thing to be removed. Lord, pass an act of oblivion
for all my sins, and especially for the hot-blooded follies of my younger
years. Those offenses which we remember with repentance God forgets, but if we
forget them, justice will bring them forth to punishment. Nor mytransgressions. Another word for the same evils. Sincere penitents cannot
get through their confessions at a gallop, for their swarming sins smite them
with so innumerable griefs. A painful sense of any one sin provokes the
believer to repentance for the whole mass of his iniquities. Nothing but the
fullest pardon will satisfy a thoroughly awakened conscience. David would have
his sins not only forgiven, but forgotten. According to thy mercy rememberthou me for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
David and the dying thief breathe the same prayer, and doubtless they grounded
it upon the same plea, namely, the free grace and unmerited goodness of
Jehovah. We dare not ask to have our portion measured from the balances of justice,
but we pray to be dealt with by the hand of mercy.
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