...here contended against, is contained in these expressions : Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin : if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, which thou hast written. It is supposed, that Moses prayed to God to make him miserable, on the condition specified throughout...

...suffer extremities : " Yet now, if thou wilt (says he, in his prayer to " God) forgive their sin ; or if not, blot me, I pray thee, *' out of thy book which thou hast written8." Blotting out of God's look is of the same importance with " blot" ting out one's name from...

...words by those who teach this doctrine makes him' speak the most arrant nonsense. His words are, ' Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sins ; and if...pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.' Here, aecording to the abettors of this doctrine, Moses prays that God would forgive their sin, if...

...: Oh, said he, this people have sinned a great tin, — yet now, if t/tou wilt, forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written ! This was the true spirit of an advocate ; and he succeeded. But our Advocate has gone farther than...

...worshipping the golden calf, he prayed to God for them, saying, " If thou wilt, forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, which thou hast written." When Paul beheld the nation of Jews, generally rejecting Christ and exposing themselves to the wrath...

...thus passionately expresses himself on the occasion, Now, O Lord, ifthou wilt, forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written b. The flattering prospect of the erection of his own family into a great nation, upon the ruins of...

...succeed : Oh, said he, this people have sinned a great sin, — yet note, ifthou wilt, forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thov hast written ! This was the true spirit of an advocate ; and he succeeded. But our Advocate has...

...sin." He went, and said, " Oh, Lord, this people have sinned a great sin, yet now forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book !" " After some days," when the hubbub was over, Jesus returned home, "and it was noised that he was...

...upon them f who, prayed in love strong as death towards them, yet now if Thou wilt, forgive their sin, and if not blot " me," I pray thee, out of thy book ! — did he record these evidences with no view of use to his own kindred, his own people, his own...

...What was the import of his request, when hf said to God, " Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Here are two things requested and both conditionally. Moses prays, if it were consistent with the will...