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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 1, 2 › 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.
And is not the reason of it, that we value the world more, and Heaven and heavenly things less than he did? that we can live at a better rate without a sense of the love of God in Christ, than he could do? and is it not hence that we every day see so many withering Professors, that have in a manner lost all Communion with God, beyond a little lip-labour, or talking; the filthy savour of whose wounds ⟨p. 37⟩are offensive to all but themselves; and so will they go on ready to dye and perish, rather than with this holy man thus stir up themselves to meet the Lord. Heman was also like unto him, Psal. 88 11; 13. What sense he had of his depths, he declares, v. 3. My soul, saith he, is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. And what course doth he steer in this heavy, sorrowful, and disconsolate condition? Why saith he, O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night unto thee, let my prayer come before thee, incline thine ear unto my cry, v. 1, 2. Day and night he cries to the God of his salvation, and that with earnestness and importunity. This was his business, this was he exercised about all his days.
And is not the reason of it, that we value the world more, and Heaven and heavenly things less than he did? that we can live at a better rate without a sense of the love of God in Christ, than he could do? and is it not hence that we every day see so many withering Professors, that have in a manner lost all Communion with God, beyond a little lip-labour, or talking; the filthy savour of whose wounds ⟨p. 37⟩are offensive to all but themselves; and so will they go on ready to dye and perish, rather than with this holy man thus stir up themselves to meet the Lord. Heman was also like unto him, Psal. 88 11; 13. What sense he had of his depths, he declares, v. 3. My soul, saith he, is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. And what course doth he steer in this heavy, sorrowful, and disconsolate condition? Why saith he, O Lord God of my salvation, I have cryed day and night unto thee, let my prayer come before thee, encline thine ear unto my cry, v. 1, 2. Day and night he cryes to the God of his salvation, and that with earnestness and importunity. This was his business, this was he exercised about all his dayes.