10. Create. Has sin so destroyed us
that the Creator must be called in again? What ruin evil works among mankind! Createin me. I, in my outward fabric, still exist; but I am empty, desert, void.
Come, then, and let thy power be seen in a new creation within my old fallen
self. A clean heart. In verse 7 he
asked to be clean; now he seeks a heart suitable to that cleanliness; but he
does not say, “Make my old heart cleans”; he is too experienced in the hopelessness of the old nature. He would
have the old man buried as a dead thing, and a new creation brought in to fill
its place. None but God can create either a new heart or a new earth. The work
in us as much as that for us is wholly of Omnipotence. The affections must be
rectified first, or all our nature will go amiss. Renew a right spirit within me. It was there once, Lord, put it there again. Remove the evil as
I have intreated thee; but replace it with good, lest into my swept, empty
heart from which the devil has gone for a while seven other spirits more wicked
than the first should enter and dwell.
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