Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 51:12
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Psalms51:12
12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation : and uphold me with thy free spirit.
The Comfortable Sence of thy saving Grace and Help, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting Salvation.
A weak and frail Creature, never able to stand against Corruption, and Temptation without thy powerful and gracious Succours.
Or, ingenuous, or Liberal, or Princely. Which he seems to oppose to his own base and Illiberal and Dis-ingenuous and servile Spirit, which he had discovered in his wicked and unworthy Practises; and Desires a better Spirit, even the Spirit of God, which may free him from the Bondage of sin, and inable and in[illegible: 1+ letters]line him freely and Cheerfully, and constantly to run the way of Gods precepts. See Exod. 35. 21. Psal. 110. 3. Rom. 8. 15, 16. 2 Cor. 3. 17.
Marginal references: Or, l[illegible: 1+ letters]t [illegible: 1 word] free, Or, [illegible: 1+ letters] ly Spirit uphold me.
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