John Trapp on Isaiah 59:12

Ver. 12. For our tranſgreſſions are multiplied before thee] When complaints end in confeſſions, it is right: the Phyſick worketh kindly. Some furious fools have brutiſh and fell affections, full of rage, when in pain or grief they fly upon God and man, and all that comes next hand; hoping to eaſe themſelves, not by confeſſion or reformation, but by revenge.

And our ſins teſtifying againſt us] Sin put a ſting into their croſſes: and hence it was they lay ſo heavy. This brought ſuch roarings and groanings upon them, Heb. Peccatū reſpondit. l. c. peccatorum unumquodque. and that alſo when ſalvation was looked for.

For our tranſgreſſions are with us] They lie like a lo[illegible: 1 letter]d of lead upon our conſciences, where they are yet unpardoned.

And as for our iniquities, we know them] Our conſciences are burdened with them, and we feel the terrours of God in our ſouls. Conſcientia nihil aliud eſt quam cordis ſcientia: Conſcience is the reflection of the ſoul upon it ſelf. See 1 Cor. 4.4. So here, As for our iniquities we know them, namely by a ſecond act of the underſtanding, whereby, after we think or know a thing, we think what we think, and know what we know, and this is properly the action of Conſcience.