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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.
1What is the frame of the soul in general, that is excited by grace, and resolves in the strength thereof to attempt a recovery out of the depths of sin entanglements, hath been declared. We have also showed what entertainment in general such a soul had need to expect, yea, ordinarily shall be sure to meet withal. It may be he goes forth at first like Sampson with his locks cut, and thinks he will do as at other times; but he quickly finds, his peace lost, his wounds painful, his Conscience restless, God displeased, and his whole condition, as to the utmost of his own Apprehension, hazardous. This fills him with the thoughts expressed in this third Verse, and fixes the conclusion in his ⟨p. 55⟩mind, discoursed of before. He finds now that he hath the Law afresh to deal withal. Thence ariseth that sense and acknowledgement of sin, that self-condemnation, in the Justification of God, whereof we now speak. He grows not sullen, stubborn, displeased, and so runs away from God; he doth not utterly saint, despond and give over; he pleads not any thing in his own Justification, or for the extenuation of his sin and guilt; he quarrelleth not with, he repineth not against the Holiness, Severity and Righteousness of the Law of God; but reflects wholly on himself, his own unworthiness, guilt and desert; and in a sense of them lies down at the foot of God, in expectation of his word and sentence.
1What is the frame of the soul in general, that is excited by grace, and resolves in the strength thereof to attempt a recovery out of the depths of sin entanglements, hath been declared. We have also shewed what entertainment in general such a soul had need to expect, yea, ordinarily shall be sure to meet withall. It may be he goes forth at first like Sampson with his locks cut, and thinks he will do as at other times; but he quickly finds, his peace lost, his wounds painful, his Conscience restless, God displeased, and his whole condition, as to the utmost of his own Apprehension, hazardous. This fills him with the thoughts expressed in this third Verse, and fixes the conclusion in his ⟨p. 55⟩mind, discoursed of before. He finds now that he hath the Law afresh to deal withal. Thence ariseth that sense and acknowledgement of sin, that self-condemnation, in the Justification of God, whereof we now speak. He grows not sullen, stubborn, displeased, and so runs away from God; he doth not utterly saint, despond and give over; he pleads not any thing in his own Justification, or for the extenuation of his sin and guilt; he quarrelleth not with, he repineth not against the Holiness, Severity and Righteousness of the Law of God; but reflects wholly on himself, his own unworthiness, guilt and desert; and in a sence of them lyes down at the foot of God, in expectation of his word and sentence.