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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.
First, Loss of the wonted sense of the Love of God which the soul did formerly enjoy. There is a twofold sense of the Love of God, whereof Believers in this world may be made partakers. There is the transient affecting of the heart by the Holy Ghost, with ravishing unspeakable joys, in apprehension of Gods Love, and our Relation unto him in Christ. This, or the immediate effect of it, is called, joy unspeakable and full of glory, 1 Pet. 1. 8. The Holy Ghost shining into the heart, with a clear evidence of the souls interest in all Gospel Mercies, causeth it to leap for joy, to exult, and triumph in the Lord; as being for a season carried above all sense and thought of sin, self, temptation, or trouble. But as God gives the bread of his House ⟨p. 11⟩unto all his Children, so these dainties, and high Cordials he reserveth only for the seasons, and Persons, wherein, and to whom he knows them to be needful, and useful. Believers may be without this sense of Love, and yet be in no depths. A man may be strong and healthy, who hath wholesome food, though he never drink Spirits and Cordials.
First, Loss of the wonted sense of the Love of God which the soul did formerly enjoy. There is a twofold sense of the Love of God, whereof Believers in this world may be made partakers. There is the transient affecting of the heart by the Holy Ghost, with ravishing unspeakable joyes, in apprehension of Gods Love, and our Relation unto him in Christ. This, or the immediate effect of it, is called, joy unspeakable and full of glory, 1 Pet. 1. 8. The Holy Ghost shining into the heart, with a clear evidence of the souls interest in all Gospel Mercies, causeth it to leap for joy, to exult, and triumph in the Lord; as being for a season carried above all sense and thought of sin, self, temptation, or trouble. But as God gives the bread of his House ⟨p. 11⟩unto all his Children, so these dainties, and high Cordials he reserveth only for the seasons, and Persons, wherein, and to whom he knows them to be needful, and useful. Believers may be without this sense of Love, and yet be in no depths. A man may be strong and healthy, who hath wholsom food, though he never drink Spirits and Cordials.