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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.
I shall first somewhat speak unto it in This; as considering in its self, and then enquire into the concernment of the soul in it, whose condition is here described.
1The Lord speaks of some who when they hear the words of the curse, yet bless themselves, and say they shall have peace; Deut. 29. 19. Let men preach, and say what they please of the terror of the Lord, they will despise it; which God threatens with utter extermination: And he notes it again, as an amazing wickedness, and the height of obdurateness, Jer. 36. 24. Generally it is with sinners, as it was with Gaal the Son of Ebbed, Judg. 9. when he was fortifying of Shechem against Abimelech; Zebul tells him that Abimelech will come and destroy him. Let him come saith Gaal, I shall deal well enough with him, let him bring forth his Army, I fear him not; but upon the very first appearance of Abimelech's Army, he trembleth for fear, v. 36. Tell obdurate sinners of the wrath of God, and that he will come to plead his cause against them; for the most part they take no notice of what you say; nor have any serious thoughts about it; but go on as if they were resolved they should deal well enough with him. Notwithstanding all their stoutness, a day is coming wherein fearfulness shall surprise them, and make them cry out, who amongst us shall dwell with devouring fire, who amongst us shall inhabit with everlasting burnings? Yea, if the Lord be pleased in this life in an especial manner to draw nigh to any of them, they quickly see, that their hearts cannot endure, nor can their hands be strong, Ezek. 22. 14. Their hands hang down, and their stout hearts tremble like an aspen leaf.
1The Lord speaks of some who when they hear the words of the curse, yet bless themselves, and say they shall have peace;