Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 51:2

2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Heb. Multiply to wash me. By which Phrase he implies the greatness of his guilt; and the insufficiency of all legal Washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and better thing to wash him, even of Gods Grace and the Blood of Christ; which as Abraham saw by Faith, Ioh. 8. 5[illegible: 1+ letters]. so did David, as is sufficiently evident (allowing for the darkness of the Dispensation and Expressions of the Old Testament) from divers passages of the Psalms; of which I have spoken in their Proper places; and his earnest and passionate desire of Pardon; which he desires above all other things. Wherein he sheweth himself to be a true Penitent, because his chief Care and desire was to obtain God's Favour, and the forgiveness of his sins, and not the Prevention of those external [illegible: 1+ letters]ore Judgments, which God by Nathan threatned to bring upon him and his House, 2 Sam. 12. 10, 11. about which here is not one Word in this Psalm; whereas the Cares and Desires of Hypocrites, chiefly are bent towards Worldly things, as we see in Cain, Gen. 4. 13, 16, 17. and Sa[illegible: 1+ letters]l, 1 Sam. 15. 30. and others [illegible: 1 word]. 7. 14.