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A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm
A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1669
AN EXPOSITION UPON PSALM CXXX. › General Scope of the whole Psalm. › Verses 5, 6 › Section
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What course can any one advise such a one unto for his relief, and to preserve his soul from fainting or deserting the duty of waiting on God wherein he is engaged, but only this, to search and enquire what Revelation God hath made of himself and his Will concerning him in his Word: And this the promise declares. Here he shall find hope, patience, faith, expectation to be all increased, comforted, encouraged. Herein lies the duty and safety of any in this condition. Men may bear the first impression of any trouble with the strength, courage and resolution of their natural spirits; under some continuance of them they may support themselves with former experiences, and other usual springs and means of consolation: But if their wounds prove difficult to be cured, if they despise ordinary remedies, if their diseases are of long continuance, this is that which they must be take themselves unto. They must search into the Word of promise, and learn to measure things not according to the present state and apprehensions of their mind, but according unto what God hath declared concerning them. And there are sundry Excellencies in the promises when hoped in, or trusted in, that tend unto the establishment of the soul in this great duty of waiting. As,
What course can any one advise such a one unto for his relief, and to preserve his soul from fainting or deserting the duty of waiting on God wherein he is engaged, but only this, to search and enquire what Revelation God hath made of himself and his Will concerning him in his Word: And this the promise declares. Here he shall find hope, patience, faith, expectation to be all encreased, comforted, encouraged. Herein lyes the duty and safety of any in this condition. Men may bear the first impression of any trouble with the strength, courage and resolution of their natural spirits; under some continuance of them they may support themselves with former experiences, and other usual springs and means of consolation: But if their wounds prove difficult to be cured, if they despise ordinary remedies, if their diseases are of long continuance, this is that which they must be take themselves unto. They must search into the Word of promise, and learn to measure things not according to the present state and apprehensions of their mind, but according unto what God hath declared concerning them. And there are sundry Excellencies in the promises when hoped in, or trusted in, that tend unto the establishment of the soul in this great duty of waiting. As,