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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.
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 ⟨p. 38⟩security in Jonah, that he was fast asleep when the Ship wherein he was, was ready to be cast away for his ••ke. And will it be thought less in any soul, who being in a storm of wrath and displeasure from God, sent out into the deep after him, shall neglect it, and sleep, as Solomon says on the top of a Mast in the midst of the Sea? How did that poor creature whose heart was mad on his Idols, Judg. 18. 24. cry out, when he was deprived of them? You have taken away my Gods, saith he, and what have I more? And shall a gracious soul lose his God, through his own folly, the sense of his love, the consolation of his presence, and not with all his might follow hard after him? Peace with God, joy in believing, such souls have formerly obtained; Can they live without them now, in their ordinarily walking, can they choose but cry out with Job, O that it were with us, as in former days, when the candle of the Lord was upon our Tabernacle, Chap. 29. 2, 3, 4. and with David, O Lord restore unto me the joy of salvation, Psal. 51. 12. for Oh my God, I remember former enjoyments, and my soul is cast down within me,