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The Prayer of a Broken Heart: Being an Exposition of the Fifty-first Psalm is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this in-depth exploration of the fifty-first Psalm, Robert S. Candlish divides the psalm into four parts: the confession of sin, the supplication for full cleansing, its purpose of reparation, and its present sacrifice and final prospect.

when thou judgest.” There is thirdly the tracing up of the deadly disease to its source; the tracking back and deep of the guilt and sinfulness to its radical origin, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” The central head is of course the one that bulks prominently; the first preparing the way for the experience described in it; and the second, pointing to its deepest issue, in its being ultimately run up into its original cause; the fall of man and the ruin of
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