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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 7, 8
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.
1Verse 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous Redemption. 8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
1I shall proceed in the opening of these words, according unto the method already insisted on. First, the meaning of the principal words shall be declared; then the sense and importance of the whole. Thirdly, the Relation that they have unto the condition of the soul expressed in the Psalm must be manifested; from all which Observations will arise for our Instruction and Directions in the like cases, wherein we are or may be concerned.
- 1Exposition of vers. 7, & 8.
Let Israel hope in the Lord; [Greek or Hebrew] Hope Israel in Jehovah. Trust, or expect; the same word with that, vers. 5. In his word do I hope; properly, to expect, to look for, which includes hope, and adds some further degree of the souls acting towards God; it is an earnest looking after the thing hoped for; expecta ad Dominum; hope in him, and look up to him; For with the Lord, quia or quoniam, because, seeing that with the Lord; [Greek or Hebrew] mercy; the verb substantive, as usual, is omitted, which we supply, there is Mercy, Grace, Bounty, Goodness, Good-will. This word is often joined with another, discovering its importance, and that is [Greek or Hebrew] Truth. [Greek or Hebrew] Goodness, or Mercy and Truth. These are, as it were, constituent parts of Gods Promises. It is of Goodness, Grace, Bounty, to promise any undue mercy. And it is of Truth or Faithfulness to make good what is so promised. The LXX. commonly render this word by [Greek or Hebrew], that is, pardoning mercy, as it is every where used in the New Testament.