Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Ver. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean?] That can I, saith the proud Pharisee and the Popish justiciary. Non habeo, Domine, quod mihi ignoscas: I have nothing, Lord, for thee to pardon, saith Isidore the monk. When St Paul, that had been in the third, heaven, complains of his inward impurities, Rom 7:15 and though he should have known no evil by himself, yet durst he not look to be thereby justified. 1Co 4:4 And holy Job could say, "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet God would plunge me in the ditch, so that my own clothes should abhor me." Job 9:30-31 And "If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities," saith David, "who should stand before thee?" Psa 130:3