Psalms 51:15-16

Psalms 51:15-16. And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:

Very naturally, David’s mind began to think of the multitudes of bullocks, and lambs, and rams, that were burnt upon Jehovah’s altar. There is nothing that makes a man so spiritual, and so Evangelical, as a deep sense of sin. You cannot be a sacramentarian and a ceremonialist long if you have a broken heart. Those pretty toys do very well for the kind of "miserable sinners" who do not know what either misery or sin means; but he who really has had his heart broken, on account of the guilt of his sin, cannot be content with the mere outward sacrifice, he must have that which is spiritual: "Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:"