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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 › 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.
11. The soul is enabled thereby to resign it self unto the disposal of Sovereign Grace, in self-abhorrency, and a Renunciation of all other ways of Relief. Lam. 3. 29. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. What God will, is his Language. Here he lies at his disposal, humble, broken, but abiding his pleasure. Though he slay me, saith Job, yet I will trust in him, Chap. 13. 15. It is all one, how he deals with me; whatever be the event I will abide cleaving unto him. I will not think of any other way of extricating my self from my distress. I will neither fly like Jonah, nor bide like Adam, nor take any other course for deliverance. Saith the soul, God is a God that hideth himself from me, Isa. 45. 15. I walk in darkness and have no light, Chap. 50. 10. My flesh faileth, and my heart faileth, Psal. 73. 26. So that I am overwhelmed with trouble. Mine Iniquities have taken such ⟨p. 120⟩hold on me, that I cannot look up, Psal. 40. 12. The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me; Every day am I in dread and terror, and am ready utterly to saint, and no relief can I obtain. What then shall I do? Shall I curse God and dye? or cry this evil is of the Lord, why should I wait for him any longer? Shall I take the course of the world, and seeing it will be no better, be wholly regardless of my latter end? No; I know what ever my lot and portion be, that there is forgiveness with God: This and that poor man trusted in him, they cried unto him, and were delivered. So did David in his greatest distress, he encouraged his heart in the Lord his God, 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. It is good for me to cast my self into his arms; it may be, he will frown; it may be he is wroth still; but all is one, this way I will go; as it seems good unto him to deal with me, so let it be: And unspeakable are the Advantages which a soul obtains by this self Resignation, which the faith treated of, will infallibly produce.