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8 April 3rd, evening.
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All we like sheep have gone astray.
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We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of
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Isaiah chapter 53, verse 6.
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Here a confession of sin is shared by all the elect people of God.
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They have all fallen, and therefore in one voice, from the first who entered heaven to
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the last who shall arrive, they all say, all we like sheep have gone astray.
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This confession is not only unanimous, it is also special and particular.
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We have turned everyone to his own way.
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All are sinful, but each individual faces his or her own peculiar sinfulness, which
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is not found in someone else.
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It is the mark of genuine repentance that while it naturally associates itself with other
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penitents, it also takes up a position of loneliness.
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We have turned everyone to his own way, is a confession that each individual had sinned
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against light peculiar to himself, or sinned with an aggravation that he cannot perceive
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This confession is unreserved.
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There is not a word to detract from its force, nor a syllable by a way of excuse.
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This confession bids farewell to every plea of self-justification.
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It is the declaration of those who are consciously guilty.
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Guilty with aggravations, guilty without excuse, they stand with their weapons of rebellion,
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broken in pieces and cry, all we like sheep have gone astray.
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We have turned everyone to his own way.
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Yet, we hear no mournful whalings attending this confession of sin, for the next sentence
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makes it almost a song.
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The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort.
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How strange that where misery was concentrated, mercy reigned.
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Where sorrow reached her climax, weary souls find rest.
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The Saviour bruised is the healing of bruised hearts.
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Consider how the humble confession gives way to assured confidence by simply gazing at
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Christ on the cross.
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This has been mourning an evening, a production of Crossway.