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That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.

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114. That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.

In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”4623 Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: “Shall the dust make confession to Thee?”4624 Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: “I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.”4625 Also in Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted?”4626

Footnotes

  1. 4623

    Ps. vi. 5. [Here, as often, the grave is represented as enjoying a temporary victory, for the flesh is no longer capable of worship. Not till the whole man is restored comes 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.]

  2. 4624

    Ps. xxx. 9.

  3. 4625

    Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

  4. 4626

    Jer. viii. 4.