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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. › Verses 1, 2
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.
The Moral use of the word, as expressing the state and condition of the souls of men, is metaphorical. These Depths then, are difficulties, or pressures, attended with fear, horror, danger and trouble.
And they are of two sorts:
1. Providential; in respect of outward distresses, Calamities, and Afflictions, Psal. 69. 1. Save me O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul; I stick in the mire of the deep, and there is no standing, I am come, [Greek or Hebrew], into the depths of waters, and the flood overflows me. It is trouble and the extremity of it, that the Psalmist complains of, and which he thus expresseth. He was brought by it into a condition like unto a man ready to be drowned; being cast into the bottom of deep and miry waters; where he had no firm foundation to stand upon, nor ability to come out: as he farther explains himself, ver. 15.
1. Providential; in respect of outward distresses, Calamities, and Afflictions, Psal. 69. 1. Save me O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul; I stick in the mire of the deep, and there is no standing, I am come, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, into the depths of waters, and the flood overflows me. It is trouble and the extremity of it, that the Psalmist complains of, and which he thus expresseth. He was brought by it into a condition like unto a man ready to be drowned; being cast into the bottom of deep and miry waters; where he had no firm foundation to stand upon, nor ability to come out: as he farther explains himself, ver. 15.