John Trapp on Psalms 25:7

Verſ. 7. Remember not the ſins of my youth] Which, though long ſince committed, muſt not bee remembred without remorſe; ſith for them God often puniſheth men in their age, Job 13.26. Jer. 3.25. It is not the laſt ſand that emptieth the hour-glaſſe, nor the laſt blow that throweth down the Oak. Sin may ſleep a long time, like a ſleeping debt, not called for of many years; as Sauls ſin in ſlaying the Gibeonites, not puniſhed till forty years after; as Jo[illegible: 1 letter]bs killing of Abner ſlept all Davids dayes, &c. It is not ſafe to bee at odds with the Ancient of dayes. This David knew, and therefore was willing to clear all old ſcores, to get pardon of youthfull luſts; leſt they ſhould put a ſting into his preſent ſufferings. And that being thorowly done, as hee could expect mercy and direction from God, ſo if any ſhould maliciouſly upbraid him with his by-gone iniquities, hee could anſwer as Auſtin did in like caſe, Quae tu reprehendis, ego damnavi, What thou reprehendeſt in me, I have long ſince condemned in my ſelf. And as Reverend Beza, when a ſpitefull Papiſt hit him in the teeth with his wanton poems ſet forth in his youth, and long before repented of, Hic homo invidet mihi gratiam Chriſti, This fellow ſaid hee, envieth mee the grace of Jeſus Chriſt.

Nor my tranſgreſſions] Or, prevarications, In perſonam Vriae, In the matter of Vriak, ſaith R. Obadiah; the ſins of mine age, ſaith Kimchi; all my faults of former and later time, ſaith another. David was well in years, when hee defiled himſelf with Bathſheba. In many young men, the Roſe is cankered in the bud. And again, as the canker ſooneſt entreth into the white Roſe; ſo doth corruption eaſily creep into the white head. David prayeth God to forgive him his ſins, both of former and of latter time; and not to forgive them only, but to forget them too; Remember not the ſins, &c. And as hee fitly joyneth memorie of mercies and forgetfullneſſe of ſins, ſo hee forgetteth not to ſubjoyn

According to thy mercy remember thou mee, for thy goodneſſe ſake, O Lord] Do all of free grace, not for any motive or merit of mine. Lorinus a Jeſuite here bringeth in ſundry paſſages (as well hee may) Pſal. 6.8. & 51.3. & 69.14. & 86.5.15. & 106.45. & 119.156. & 136.7. Dan. 9.18. Iſa. 55.7. to prove that all is of mercy, and not of merits.