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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.
In the Exhortation there occurs,
1. The persons exhorted; that is, Israel; not Israel according to the flesh; for they are not all Israel which are of Israel, Rom. 9. 6. But it is the Israel mentioned, Psal. 73. 1. The whole Israel of God to whom he is good, such as are of a clean heart; that is, all those who are interested in the Covenant, and do inherit the promise of their forefathers who was first called by that name? All Believers; and the Psalmist treats them all in general in this matter.
1. Because there is none of them but have their trials and entanglements about sin, more or less. As there is none that ⟨p. 405⟩liveth and sinneth not; so there is none sinneth, and is not entangled and troubled. Perhaps then they are not all of them in the same condition with him, in the depths that he was plunged into. Yet more or less, all and every one of them is so far concerned in sin, as to need his direction. All the Saints of God either have been, or are, or may be in these depths. It is a good saying of Austin on this place, Valde sunt in profundo qui non clamant de profundo. None so in the deep, as they who do not cry and call out of the deep. They are in a deep of security, who are never sensible of a deep of sin.
1. Because there is none of them but have their trials and intanglements about sin, more or less. As there is none that ⟨p. 405⟩