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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. › A PARAPHRASE. › Verse 3: Ver. 3.
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.
Ver. 3.
1IT is true O Lord, thou God great and terrible, that if thou shouldst deal with me in this Condition, with any man living, with the best of thy Saints, according to the strict and exact tenor of the Law, which first represents it self to my guilty Conscience, and troubled soul; If thou shouldst take notice of, observe, and keep in Remembrance, mine, or their, or the Iniquity of any one, to the end that thou mightest deal with them, and recompense unto them according to the sentence thereof; there would be neither for me, nor them, any the least expectation of deliverance; all flesh must fail before thee, and the spirits which thou hast made, and that to Eternity; for who could stand before thee, when thou shouldst so execute thy displeasure.
1IT is true O Lord, thou God great and terrible, that if thou shouldst deal with me in this Condition, with any man living, with the best of thy Saints, according to the strict and exact tenor of the Law, which first represents it self to my guilty Conscience, and troubled soul; If thou shouldst take notice of, observe, and keep in Remembrance, mine, or their, or the Iniquity of any one, to the end that thou mightest deal with them, and recompence unto them according to the sentence thereof; there would be neither for me, nor them, any the least expectation of deliverance; all flesh must fail before thee, and the spirits which thou hast made, and that to Eternity; for who could stand before thee, when thou shouldst so execute thy displeasure.
- 13. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?