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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.
Fifthly, There may be added hereunto, prevailing fears for a season, of being utterly rejected by God, of being found a Reprobate at the last day. Jonah seems to conclude so, Chap. 3. 4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight. I am lost for ever, God will own me no more. And Heman, Psalm 88. 4, 5. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: Free among the dead, like the slain that lye in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. This may reach the soul, until the sorrows of Hell encompass it, and lay hold upon it; until it be deprived of comfort, peace, rest, until it be a terror to its self, and be ready to choose strangling rather than life. This may befall a gracious soul on the account of sin. But yet because this fights directly against the Life of Faith, God doth not, unless it be in extraordinary cases, suffer any of his to lye long in this horrible pit, where there is no water, no refreshment. But this often falls out, that even the Saints themselves are left for a season to a fearful expectation of judgement, and ⟨p. 15⟩fiery indignation, as to the prevailing apprehension of their minds. And,
Fifthly, There may be added hereunto, prevailing fears for a season, of being utterly rejected by God, of being found a Reprobate at the last day. Jonah seems to conclude so, Chap. 3. 4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight. I am lost for ever, God will own me no more. And Heman, Psalm 88. 4, 5. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: Free among the dead, like the slain that lye in the grave, whom thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. This may reach the soul, until the sorrows of Hell encompass it, and lay hold upon it; untill it be deprived of comfort, peace, rest, untill it be a terror to its self, and be ready to choose strangling rather than life. This may befall a gracious soul on the account of sin. But yet because this fights directly against the Life of Faith, God doth not, unless it be in extraordinary cases, suffer any of his to lye long in this horrible pit, where there is no water, no refreshment. But this often falls out, that even the Saints themselves are left for a season to a fearful expectation of judgement, and ⟨p. 15⟩