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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.
The giving out of the Law afterwards, evinces what effects the consideration of Gods proceeding with sinners, according to the tenor of it, must needs produce, Exod. 20. 18, 19. All the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the Mountain smoking; as the Apostle also describes it, Heb. 12. 18. In this manner came forth from the Lord that fiery Law, Deut. 33. 2. So that all who were concerned in it, did exceedingly quake and tremble. And yet all this respects but the severity of the Law in general, without the application of it unto any soul in particular. There is a solemnity, that carrieth an awe with it, in the preparation of an Assize to be kept and held by poor worms like our selves; but the dread of it, is peculiar to the Malefactors, for whose trial and execution all this preparation is made. When a soul comes to think, that all this dreadful preparation, this appearance of terrible Majesty, these streams of the fiery Law are all pointed towards him, it will make him cry out, Lord who can stand? And this Law is still in force towards sinners, even as it was on the day wherein it was given on Mount Sinai. ⟨p. 50⟩Though Moses grew old, yet his strength never failed. Nor hath his Law, the Law given by him, lost any thing of its strength, power, or Authority towards sinners. It is still accompanied with thunderings and lightnings as of old. And it will not fail to represent the terror of the Lord to a guilty soul.
The giving out of the Law afterwards, evinces what effects the consideration of Gods proceeding with sinners, according to the tenor of it, must needs produce, Exod. 20. 18, 19. All the people saw the thundrings and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the Mountain smoaking; as the Apostle also describes it, Heb. 12. 18. In this manner came forth from the Lord that fiery Law, Deut. 33. 2