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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.
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.
Fourthly, Though self-condemnation be an eminent preparation for the discovery of forgiveness in God, yet a poor distressed soul is not to rest in it, nor to rest upon it, but to pass on to the embracing of forgiveness it self.
There is yet a general proposition lying in the words, that we may make use of in our passage; and it is this, Gods marking of iniquities, and mans salvation are everlastingly inconsistent. I mean his marking them in the persons of the sinners, for the ends before mentioned.
Of some of these I shall farther treat, according as the handling of them conduceth to the purpose in hand.