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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.
The matter is more clear in David. Under the Old Testament none loved God more than he, none was loved of God more than he. The Paths of Faith and Love wherein he walked, are unto the most of us, like the way of an Eagle in the Air, too high and hard for us. Yet to this very day, do the cries of this Man after Gods own heart, sound in our Ears. Sometimes he complains of broken bones, sometimes of drowning depths, sometimes of waves and water-spouts, sometimes of wounds and diseases, sometimes of Wrath, and the sorrows of Hell, every where of his sins, the burden and trouble of them. Some of the occasions of his, Depths, Darkness, Entanglements and Distresses, we all know. As no man had more Grace than he, so none is a greater instance of the power of sin, and the effects of its guilt upon the conscience than he. But Instances of this kind are obvious, and occur to the thoughts of all, so that they need not be repeated. I shall then show,
The matter is more clear in David. Under the Old Testament none loved God more than he, none was loved of God more than he. The Paths of Faith and Love wherein he walked, are unto the most of us, like the way of an Eagle in the Air, too high and hard for us. Yet to this very day, do the cryes of this Man after Gods own heart, sound in our Ears. Sometimes he complains of broken bones, sometimes of drowning depths, sometimes of waves and water-spouts, sometimes of wounds and diseases, sometimes of Wrath, and the sorrows of Hell, every where of his sins, the burden and trouble of them. Some of the occasions of his, Depths, Darkness, Intanglements and Distresses, we all know. As no man had more Grace than he, so none is a greater instance of the power of sin, and the effects of its guilt upon the conscience than he. But Instances of this kind are obvious, and occurr to the thoughts of all, so that they need not be repeated. I shall then shew,