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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 4: Verse 4.
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.
By the Fear of the Lord, in the Old Testament, the whole ⟨p. 74⟩Worship of God, moral and instituted, all the Obedience which we owe unto him, both for matter and manner, is intended. Whatever we are to perform unto God, being to be carried on and performed with Reverence and godly fear, by a Metonymy of the Adjunct, that name is given to the whole. That thou mayst be feared, then, is that thou mayest be served, worshipped; that I who am ready to faint and give over on the account of sin, may yet be encouraged unto, and yet continue in that Obedience which thou requirest at my hands; And this appears to be the sense of the whole Verse; as influenced by, and from those foregoing.
By the Fear of the Lord, in the Old Testament, the whole ⟨p. 74⟩Worship of God, moral and instituted, all the Obedience which we owe unto him, both for matter and manner, is intended. Whatever we are to perform unto God, being to be carried on and performed with Reverence and godly fear, by a Metonymy of the Adjunct, that name is given to the whole. That thou mayst be feared, then, is that thou maist be served, worshipped; that I who am ready to faint and give over on the account of sin, may yet be encouraged unto, and yet continue in that Obedience which thou requirest at my hands; And this appears to be the sense of the whole Verse; as influenced by, and from those foregoing.
Although O Lord, no man can approach unto thee, stand before thee, or walk with thee, if thou shouldst mark their sins and follies according to the tenor of the Law, nor could they serve so great and holy a God as thou art; yet because I know, from thy Revelation of it, that there is also with thee on the account of Jesus Christ the propitiation, pardon and forgiveness; I am encouraged to continue with thee, waiting for thee, worshipping of thee, when without this discovery, I should rather choose to have Rocks and Mountains fall upon me, to hide me from thy presence.