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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. › Verse 4 › 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.
1. Consider seriously what it is you bottom your hopes and expectation upon as to Eternity. Great men, and in other things wise, are here very apt to deceive themselves. They suppose they think and believe much otherwise, than indeed they think and believe, as their cry at the last day will manifest. Put your souls a little unto it. Do you at all seriously think of these things? Or are you so under the power of your Lusts, Ignorance, and Darkness, that you neglect and despise them? Or do you rise up and lye down, and perform some duties, or neglect them, with a great Coldness, Remissness, and Indifferency of Spirit, like Gallio not much caring for these things? Or do you relieve your selves with hopes of future amendment, purposing, that if you live, you will be other persons than you are, when such and such things are brought about and accomplished? Or do you not hope well in General upon the account of what you have done, and will do? If any of these express your condition, it is unspeakably miserable. You lye down, and rise up under the wrath of the Great God, who will prevail at last upon you, and there shall be none to deliver. If you shall say, Nay, This is not our state; we rely on Mercy and Forgiveness; then let me in the fear of the Great God entreat a few things, yet further of you.
1. Consider seriously what it is you bottom your hopes and expectation upon as to Eternity. Great men, and in other things wise, are here very apt to deceive themselves. They suppose they think and believe much otherwise, than indeed they think and believe, as their cry at the last day will manifest. Put your souls a little unto it. Do you at all seriously think of these things? Or are you so under the power of your Lusts, Ignorance, and Darkness, that you neglect and despise them? Or do you rise up and lye down, and perform some duties, or neglect them, with a great Coldness, Remisness, and Indifferency of Spirit, like Gallio not much caring for these things? Or do you relieve your selves with hopes of future amendment, purposing, that if you live, you will be other persons than you are, when such and such things are brought about and accomplished? Or do you not hope well in Generall upon the account of what you have done, and will doe? If any of these express your condition, it is unspeakably miserable. You lye down, and rise up under the wrath of the Great God, who will prevail at last upon you, and there shall be none to deliver. If you shall say, Nay, This is not our state; we rely on Mercy and Forgiveness; then let me in the fear of the Great God entreat a few things, yet further of you.