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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.
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.
And this general Prospect gives us the parts, and scope of the whole Psalm: for (1.) We have the state and condition of the soul therein represented, with his deportment in and under that state and condition, in ver. 1, 2.Out of the depths have I cried unto thee O Lord, Lord, hear my voice, let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
And this general Prospect gives us the parts, and scope of the whole Psalm: for (1.) We have the state and condition of the soul therein represented, with his deportment in and under that state and condition, in ver. 1, 2.Out of the depths have I cryed unto thee O Lord, Lord, hear my voyce, let thine ears be attentive to the voyce of my supplications.
(2.) His enquiry after relief; and therein are two things that present themselves unto him; the one whereof, which first offers the consideration of its self to him in his distress, he deprecates, ver. 3.If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, O Lord who shall stand?
The other he closeth withal, and finds relief in it, and supportment by it, ver. 5.But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared.
Upon this his discovery and fixing on relief, there is the acting of his Faith, and the deportment of his whole Person;