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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.
He who first sinned, and had first occasion to have serious thoughts about Gods marking sin, gives us a notable instance of what we have affirmed. And the first in every kind, is the measure of all that follows in the same kind, Gen. 3. 8. He heard the voice of God: so he had done before without the least trouble or consternation of Spirit; He was made for communion with God; and that he might hear his voice was part of his blessedness. But now saith he, I heard thy voice and was afraid, and hid my self. He knew that God was coming in the inquest of sin, and he was not able to bear the thoughts of meeting him; could he have gone into the bowels of the earth from whence he was taken, and have been there hid from God, he would not have failed to have attempted it. Things are now altered with him; in that God whom he loved before, as a good, holy, powerful, Righteous Creator, Preserver, Benefactor and Rewarder, he saw nothing now, but wrath, indignation, vengeance and terror. This makes him tremble out those dreadful words, I heard thy voice, and was afraid, and hid my self.
He who first sinned, and had first occasion to have serious thoughts about Gods marking sin, gives us a notable instance of what we have assirmed. And the first in every kind, is the measure of all that follows in the same kind, Gen. 3. 8. He heard the voyce of God: so he had done before without the least trouble or consternation of Spirit; He was made for communion with God; and that he might hear his voice was part of his blessedness. But now saith he, I heard thy voice and was afraid, and hid my self. He knew that God was coming in the inquest of sin, and he was not able to bear the thoughts of meeting him; could he have gone into the bowels of the earth from whence he was taken, and have been there hid from God, he would not have failed to have attempted it. Things are now altered with him; in that God whom he loved before, as a good, holy, powerful, Righteous Creator, Preserver, Benefactor and Rewarder, he saw nothing now, but wrath, indignation, vengeance and terror. This makes him tremble out those dreadful words, I heard thy voice, and was afraid, and hid my self.