As if this beautiful viper had no poison fang!',

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"Deliver me from all my transgressions!" Psalm 39:7<p>Ah! how rarely it is that we see sin in its true colours 
—that we feel what the apostle calls, "the exceeding 
sinfulness of sin!" O how much is the dreadful evil of 
sin for the most part veiled from our eyes! Our deceitful 
hearts so gloss it over, so excuse, palliate, and disguise 
it—that it is daily trifled, played, and dallied with, as if 
this beautiful viper had no poison fang!

It is only as the Spirit is pleased to open the eyes to 
see, and awaken the conscience to feel "the exceeding 
sinfulness of sin," and thus discover its dreadful character, 
that we have any real sight or sense of its awful nature.

Sins of heart, 
sins of lip, 
sins of life, 
sins of omission, 
sins of commission, 
sins of ingratitude, 
sins of unbelief, 
sins of rebellion, 
sins of lust, 
sins of pride, 
sins of worldliness! 
As all these transgressions, troop after troop, come 
in view, and rise up like spectres from the grave, well 
may we cry with stifled voice, "Deliver me, O deliver 
me from all my transgressions! Deliver me from . . .
the guilt of sin,
the filth of sin,
the love of sin,
the power of sin, and
the practice of sin!"

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