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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 › 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.
Some few instances of the many that are left on record, wherein this Truth is exemplified may be mentioned. Gen. 6. 9. Noah was a just man, perfect in his Generation, and Noah walked with God. He did so a long season, and that in an evil time, amidst all sorts of Temptations, When all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth, ver. 12. This put an eminency upon his obedience; and doubtless rendered the Communion which he had with God in walking before him, most sweet and precious to him. He was a gracious soul upon the redoubled Testimony of God himself. But we know what befell this holy Person. He that shall read the story that is recorded of him, Gen. 9. 21. will easily grant, that he was brought into inextricable distress on the account of sin. His own drunkenness, ver. 21. with the consequent of it, gives scandal unto, and provokes the unnatural lust of his Son, v. 22. and this leads him to the devoting of that Son, and his Posterity unto Destruction, v. 24, 25. all which, joined with the sense of Gods just indignation, from whom he had newly received that tremendously miraculous ⟨p. 10⟩deliverance; must needs overwhelm him with sorrow and anxiety of Spirit.
Some few instances of the many that are left on record, wherein this Truth is exemplified may be mentioned. Gen. 6. 9. Noah was a just man, perfect in his Generation, and Noah walked with God. He did so a long season, and that in an evil time, amidst all sorts of Temptations, When all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth, ver. 12. This put an eminency upon his obedience; and doubtless rendred the Communion which he had with God in walking before him, most sweet and precious to him. He was a gracious soul upon the redoubled Testimony of God himself. But we know what befell this holy Person. He that shall read the story that is recorded of him, Gen. 9. 21. will easily grant, that he was brought into inextricable distress on the account of sin. His own drunkenness, ver. 21. with the consequent of it, gives scandal unto, and provokes the unnatural lust of his Son, v. 22. and this leads him to the devoting of that Son, and his Posterity unto Destruction, v. 24, 25. all which, joyned with the sense of Gods just indignation, from whom he had newly received that tremendously miraculous