48 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. CHAPTER III. GOD'S MARKING INIQUITY. The general frame of a gracious soul, in its perplexi- ties about sin, has been declared. Its particular actings are next represented unto us in verse 3: "If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand l" " If thou, Lord." He here fixes on another name of God, which is JAIL: a name from the same root with the former, but used to intimate and express the terrible majesty of God: "He rideth on the heavens, and is ex- tolled by his name JAZZ." Psalm 68:4. He is to deal now with God about the guilt of sin; and God is repre- sented to the soul as great and terrible, that he may know what to expect if the matter must be tried accord- ing to the demerit of sin. "if thou shouldst mark iniquities :" that is, so con- sider and observe them, as to reserve them for punish- ment and vengeance. In opposition to this marking, God is said not to kee sin, to overlook it, to cover it, to remember it no more ; that is, to forgive it, as the next verse declares. I need not show that God so far marks all sins in all persons, as to see them, know them, disallow them, and to be displeased with them. This cannot be denied, without taking away all the grounds of fear and wor- ship. To deny it is equivalent to denying the very being of God; deny his holiness and righteousness, and you deny his existence. But there is a day appointed where- in all men shall know that God knew, and took notice of, all and every one of their most secret sins. There is then a double marking of sin in God, neither of which can be denied in reference unto any sins, inany persons.
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