Verse 3 (Paraphrase)

IT is true O Lord, you God great and terrible, that if you shouldst deal with me in this condition, with any man living, with the best of your saints, according to the strict and exact tenor of the law, which first represents it self to my guilty conscience, and troubled soul; If you shouldst take notice of, observe, and keep in Remembrance, mine, or their, or the iniquity of any one, to the end that you might deal with them, and recompence unto them according to the sentence thereof; there would be neither for me, nor them, any the least expectation of deliverance; all flesh must fail before you, and the spirits which you hast made, and that to eternity; for who could stand before you, when you shouldst so execute your displeasure.

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