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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.
This is that which is aimed at; if a gracious soul be brought into the depths before mentioned and described, by reason of sin, when the Lord is pleased to lead him forth towards a recovery, he causeth him to be vigorous, and restless in all the duties whereby he may make Application to him for deliverance. Now wherein this intenseness and earnestness of the soul in its Applications unto God, doth principally consist, I shall briefly declare, when I have touched a little upon some considerations and grounds that stir it up thereunto.
This is that which is aimed at; if a gracious soul be brought into the depths before mentioned and described, by reason of sin, when the Lord is pleased to lead him forth towards a recovery, he causeth him to be vigorous, and restless in all the duties whereby he may make Application to him for deliverance. Now wherein this intensness and earnestness of the soul in its Applications unto God, doth principally consist, I shall briefly declare, when I have touched a little upon some considerations and grounds that stir it up thereunto.
1First, The greatness of mens concernments may well put them on this earnestness. Men do not use to deal with dull and slothful spirits about their greatest concerns. David tells us, that he was more concerned in the light of Gods countenance, than the men of the world could be in their Corn and Wine, Psal. 4. 6, 7. Suppose a man of the world, should have his house, wherein all his stock and riches are laid up, set on fire, and so the whole be in danger under his eye to be consumed; would he be calm and quiet in the consideration of it? Would he not bestir himself with all his might, and call in all the help he could obtain? and that because his portion, his all, his great concernment lies at stake. And shall the soul be slothful, careless, dull, secure, when fire is put to its eternal concernments? when the light of Gods countenance, which is of more esteem unto him, than the greatest increase of Corn and Wine, can be to the men of the world, is removed from him? It was an argument of prodigious