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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.
1. It is selfish; The great design of faith is to give glory unto God, Rom. 4. 20. The end of Gods giving out forgiveness, is the praise of his glorious grace, Ephes. 1. 6. But let a soul in this frame have peace in it self, it is very little solicitous about giving glory unto God. He cries like Rachel, Give me children or I dye; give me peace, or I perish. That God may be honoured, and the forgiveness he seeks after be rendered glorious, It is cared for in the second place, if at all. This selfish earnestness, at first to be thrusting our hand in the side of Christ, is that which he will pardon in many, but accepts in none.
1. It is selfish; The great design of faith is to give glory unto God, Rom. 4. 20. The end of Gods giving out forgiveness, is the praise of his glorious grace, Ephes. 1. 6. But let a soul in this frame have peace in it self, it is very little solicitous about giving glory unto God. He cryes like Rachel, Give me children or I dye; give me peace, or I perish. That God may be honoured, and the forgiveness he seeks after be rendred glorious, It is cared for in the second place, if at all. This selfish earnestness, at first to be thrusting our hand in the side of Christ, is that which he will pardon in many, but accepts in none.
2. It is impatient. Men do thus deport themselves, because they will not wait. They do not care for standing afar off for any season, with the Publican. They love not to submit their souls to lye at the foot of God, to give him the glory of his Goodness, Mercy, Wisdom, and Love, in the disposal of them, and their concernments. This waiting compriseth the universal subjection of the soul unto God, with a resolved Judgement that it is meet and right that we and all we desire and aim at, should be at his Sovereign disposal. This gives glory to God; a duty which the impatience of these poor souls will not admit them to the performance of; and both these arise,