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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.
2. Towards the Saints, ver. 7, 8. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous Redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his Iniquities.
All which parts, and the various concernments of them, must be opened severally.
And this also gives an account of what is my design from, and upon the words of this Psalm; namely, to declare the perplexed entanglements which may befall a gracious soul, such a one as this Psalmist was; with the nature and proper workings of Faith in such a condition: Principally aiming at what it is, that gives a soul relief and supportment in, and afterward deliverance from, such a perplexed estate.
And this also gives an account of what is my design from, and upon the words of this Psalm; namely, to declare the perplexed intanglements which may befall a gracious soul, such a one as this Psalmist was; with the nature and proper workings of Faith in such a condition: Principally aiming at what it is, that gives a soul relief and supportment in, and afterward deliverance from, such a perplexed estate.
The Lord in Mercy, dispose of these Meditations in such a way and manner, as that both he that writes, and they that read, may be made partakers of the benefit, relief, and consolation, intended for his Saints in this Psalm by the Holy Ghost.