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Psalm 19

4 positions in the corpus lean on this chapter. Cited verses are marked.

1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

2Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

3Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

5Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

9The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.

10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.

12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

13Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Who leans on it

Calvin on natural / general revelationPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Creation is an objectively adequate display: God's glory is 'engraven in characters so bright, so distinct, and so illustrious, that none, however dull and illiterate, can plead ignorance as their excuse' (Institutes I.v…Chrysostom on natural / general revelationPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Creation is God's own teaching, addressed to everyone without distinction — "both wise, and unlearned, and Scythian, and barbarian." The knowledge of God was placed in men from the beginning; what went wrong was that the…Second London Baptist Confession on natural / general revelationPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Chapter 1.1 grants that creation and providence genuinely manifest God's goodness, wisdom and power, and that they do so far enough to leave every person inexcusable — but not far enough to save. Chapter 20, which has no…Westminster Confession on natural / general revelationPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°The Confession opens on this question rather than on Scripture, and gives both halves of the stance in one sentence: creation and providence manifest God far enough to leave men inexcusable, and not far enough to save. W…