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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.
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⟩liveth and sinneth not; so there is none sinneth, and is not intangled 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.
2. There is none of them, whatever their present condition he, but they may fall into the like depths with those of the Psalmist. There is nothing absolutely in the Covenant, nor in any Promise, to secure them from it. And what befalleth any one Believer, may befall them all. If any one Believer may fall totally away, all may do so, and not leave one in the world, and so an end be put to the Kingdom of Christ, which is no small evidence that they cannot so fall. But they may fall into depths of sin; that some of them have done so, we have testimonies and instances beyond exception. It is good then that all of them should be prepared for that duty which they may all stand in need of, and a right discharge of it. Besides the duty mentioned, is not absolutely restrained to the condition before described: But it is proper and accommodate unto other seasons also. Therefore are all the Israel of God exhorted unto it.