Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 51:3
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Psalms51:3
3. For I acknowledge my transgressions : and my sin is ever before me .
With Grief and Shame, and abhorrency of my self and of my sins; which hitherto I have dissembled and covered. And being thus truly Penitent, I hope and beg that I may find Mercy with thee.
For it was not a single, but a Complicated, Wickedness, Adultery, Murder, Injustice, Perfidiousness; and frequent Repetition of, and long and stupid Continuance in a[illegible: 1+ letters]ominable Repetition of, and that with publick Scandal.
That which I had cast chind my Back is now Constantly in my view, and fixed in my Thoughts and Memory.
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