814 Chap. 42. an Expoftionupon the Busk of Jos. Verf. 3 Hencenote, Sixthly, Oar ignorance etnd errors, are to be confefed andbee, wailed before the Lord, and we to be deeply humbled for them. What though we hare not any open wickednefs to charge our (elves with ? what though the world cannot chargeus, nor we our felves,with any foul and black-fac'd enormities ; yet have we not errors, have we not ignorances, havewe not wcakneffes to con- fefs ? fobs eye had none of chofe beams in id; but he began to fee the moates in his eye, and repented of his (hortnefs in know- ledg, and of his rafhnefs in language. Though great fins call loudei for repentance, yet the leaf} fin, even a fin of ignorance, callethus to repentance alfo,andwo to chofe who knowingly neg le&,or flop choir ears againff that call.WhenDavid was onlyflag- ger'd at the providence of God giving profperity to the wicked, fo fpake unadvifedly with his lips (as fob in a parallel cafe did) Pfal 73. I 3, 14.) Verily, I have cleanfed my heart in vain, and mafh edmyhands in innocency:For all the day longhaveIbeenplagued and chaflened every morning. Yet as loon as he recoveredout of this temptation, how deeply did he charge himfelf (ver. 22.) So fooli fh was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beafl before thee. Why did he then call himfelf a fool, a bah ? was it for adultery and murder, which were once his fins ? no, but for ignorance and rafhnefs. David called himfelf a bean , in judging of the dealings of (God by" fenfe, not for living in any beatify fee! fuality. Let us remember, and not lightly pats it over, that though we have not (which rarely we have not) grofs fina to con- fefs, yet we have ignorances and errors too toomany. The fame David faid and prayed (Ffal. 19. 12,) Who can underffand his er- rors ? cleanfe thou me from fecret fault:, that is, fromthofe faults and errors which 'I do not underhand ; yea,cleanle me from this fault, that 3have not a better underianding. As he there pray- ed tobekept from the dominion (and fo from the guilt) of pre- fumptuous fins, that is, of fins committed againh the light of kcowledg, fo to be elevated from theguilt of his fecret fins, that is', of fins committed without his knowlcdg. Thus a godly man acknowledgeth his weakneffes, and lies low before God, in fenfe of them, when he bath not great andgrofs fins to be humbled for, Scvcnchly,
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