Until there is confession of sin, and not merely of a sin, there is no forgiveness. We find David (Psa. 51:) when he was confessing his sin, saying, " Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me;" etc.-not merely, I have done this particular evil; that he does (vers. 1-4); but he recognizes the root and principle of sin. When our hearts are brought to recognize God's hand, it is not merely, then, a question of what particular sin, or of what particular iniquity may need forgiveness; God has brought down the soul, through the working of His Spirit on it, to detect the principle of sin, and so there is confession of that, and not merely of a particular sin. There is then positive restoration of soul. " J. N. D.