GOD'S MARKING INIQUITY. 71 " turn to our strong-hold," Zech. 9 : 12 ; not enough that we are " weary and laden," but we " must come to Hirn." Matt. 11 : 28, 29. It will not suffice that we are weak, and know that we are weak, but we must " take hold on the strength of God." Isaiah, 27 : 5. Indeed, pressing after forgiveness is the very life and power of evangelical humiliation. How shall a man know that his humiliation is evangelical, that his sor- row is according to Godl He does not do as Cain did, who cried his sins were greater than he could bear, and so departed from the presence of God ; nor as Judas did, who repented, and hanged himself; nor as Felix did, tremble for a while, and then return to his lusts ; not as the Jews did, in the prophet, "pine away under their iniquities," because of vexation of heart ; nor cloth he divert his thoughts to other things, thereby to relieve his soul in his trouble ; nor fix upon a righteousness of his own ; nor slothfully lie down under his perplexity ; but in the midst of it heapplies himself to God in Christ for pardon and mercy. And it is the soul's application unto God for forgiveness, and not ifs sense of sin, that gives to God the glory of his grace. CIIAPTER IV. DISCOVERY OF FORGIVENESS. "But there, is forgiveness with Thee, that thou mayest befeared." Verse 4. FORGIVENESS is from a Hebrew word signifying to spare, to pardon, to be propitious, in opposition to a similar word meaning to cut off and destroy. Jerome, with the Septuagint, renders it " propitiation," which
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