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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. › Verse 3 › 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.
Secondly, Serious thoughts of Gods marking sin according to the ⟨p. 47⟩tenor of the Law, is a thing full of dread and terror to the soul of a sinner. But this is not all; he is not swallowed up in this amazement, crying out only who can stand? there is included in the words, a through sincere Acknowledgement of his own sin, and the guilt thereof. Mentioning the desert of sin, in his own case, he acknowledgeth his own. So that,
Thirdly, Sincere sense and Acknowledgement of sin, with self-condemnation in the Justification of God, is the first peculiar especial working of a gracious soul rising out of its entanglements. All this is included in these words. He acknowledgeth both his own guilt, and the Righteousness of God, if he should deal with him according to the demerit of sin.
Thirdly, Sincere sense and Acknowledgement of sin, with selfcondemnation in the Justification of God, is the first peculiar especial working of a gracious soul rising out of its entanglements. All this is included in these words. He acknowledgeth both his own guilt, and the Righteousness of God, if he should deal with him according to the demerit of sin.
And these things lye in the words absolutely considered; But the state of the soul here represented, carries us on farther. He rests not here, as we shall see in the opening of the next Verse, the chief thing aimed at in the whole. And as a transition from the one to the other, that we may still carry on the general design at the entrance laid down; we must take along with us this farther observation.