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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.
2. It extends it self unto a Resolution of waiting in the condition wherein the soul is. This the Church comes unto, Lam. 3. 26. It is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. I will not give over my expectation, I will not make haste, nor limit God; but I will lye at his foot, until his own appointed time of mercy shall come. Expectation and Quietness make up waiting. These the soul attains unto, with this supportment. It looks upwards, as a servant that looks to the hands of his Master, still fixed on God to see what he will do, to hear what he will speak concerning him; missing no season, no opportunity wherein any discovery of the Will of God may be made to him. And this he doth in quietness, without repining, or murmuring, turning all his complaints against himself and his own vileness, that hath cut him short from a participation of that fullness of Love and Grace which is with God. That this Effect also attends this Faith, will fully appear in the close of the Psalm.
2. It extends it self unto a Resolution of waiting in the condition wherein the soul is. This the Church comes unto, Lam. 3. 26. It is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. I will not give over my expectation, I will not make haste, nor limit God; but I will lye at his foot, until his own appointed time of mercy shall come. Expectation and Quietness make up waiting. These the soul attains unto, with this supportment. It looks upwards, as a servant that looks to the hands of his Master, still fixed on God to see what he will do, to hear what he will speak concerning him; missing no season, no opportunity wherein any discovery of the Will of God may be made to him. And this he doth in quietness, without repining, or murmuring, turning all his complaints against himself and his own vileness, that hath cut him short from a participation of that fulness of Love and Grace which is with God. That this Effect also attends this Faith, will fully appear in the close of the Psalm.