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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. It argues Oppositions. To abide, to be stable, and permanent, is to be so, against Oppositions. Many discouragements are ready to rise up in the soul against it: In Fears especially that it shall not hold out, that it shall be rejected at last, that all is nought and hypocritical with it; that it shall not be forgiven, that God indeed regards it not, and therefore it may well enough give over its hopes, which seem often as the giving up of the Ghost, will assault it. Again, Oppositions arise from corruptions and temptations unto sin, contrary to the Life of faith. And these often proceed to an high degree of prevalency, so that the guilt contracted upon them is ready to cast the soul quite out of all expectation of mercy: I shall one day perish, by these means, saith the soul, if I am not already lost.
11. It argues Oppositions. To abide, to be stable, and permanent, is to be so, against Oppositions. Many discouragements are ready to rise up in the soul against it: In Fears especially that it shall not hold out, that it shall be rejected at last, that all is nought and •ypocritical with it; that it shall not be forgiven, that God indeed regards it not, and therefore it may well enough give over its hopes, which seem often as the giving up of the Ghost, will assault it. Again, Oppositions arise from corruptions and temptations unto sin, contrary to the Life of faith. And these often proceed to an high degree of prevalency, so that the guilt contracted upon them is ready to cast the soul quite out of all expectation of mercy: I shall one day perish, by these means, saith the soul, if I am not already lost.
- 1Abiding with God, wherein it consisteth.
But now where faith hath made this discovery of forgiveness, the soul will abide with God against all these discouragements and Oppositions. It will not leave him, it will not give over waiting for him. So David expresseth the matter in the instance of himself,