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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.
3. That you would consider seriously, whether it be not high time for you to look out for a way of deliverance, and escape, that you may save your selves from this evil World, and fly from the wrath to come. The Judge stands at the door. Before he deal with you as a Judge, he knocks with a tender of mercy. Who knows, but that this may be the last time of his dealing thus with you. Be you old or young, you have but your season, ⟨p. 273⟩but your day; it may perhaps be night with you, when it is day with the rest of the World. Your Sun may go down at Noon; And God may swear that you shall not enter into his Rest. If you are then resolved to continue in your present condition, I have no more to say unto you. I am pure from your blood, in that I have declared unto you the counsel of God in this thing, and so I must leave you to a naked Trial between the Great God and your Souls at the last day; poor Creatures, I even tremble to think, how he will tear you in pieces, when there shall be none to deliver. Me thinks I see your poor destitute forlorn souls, forsaken of lusts, sins, world, friends, Angels, Men, Trembling before the Throne of God, full of horror, and fearful expectation of the dreadful sentence. Oh that I could mourn over you, whilst you are joined to all the living; whilst there is yet hope, oh that in this your day, you knew the things of your peace.
3. That you would consider seriously, whether it be not high time for you to look out for a way of deliverance, and escape, that you may save your selves from this evil World, and fly from the wrath to come. The Judge stands at the door. Before he deal with you as a Judge, he knocks with a tender of mercy. Who knows, but that this may be the last time of his dealing thus with you. Be you old or young, you have but your season, ⟨p. 273⟩but your day; it may perhaps be night with you, when it is day with the rest of the World. Your Sun may go down at Noon; And God may swear that you shall not enter into his Rest. If you are then resolved to continue in your present condition, I have no more to say unto you. I am pure from your blood, in that I have declared unto you the counsel of God in this thing, and so I must leave you to a naked Tryal between the Great God and your Souls at the last day; poor Creatures, I even tremble to think, how he will tear you in pieces, when there shall be none to deliver. Me thinks I see your poor destitute forlorn souls, forsaken of lusts, sins, world, friends, Angels, Men, Trembling before the Throne of God, full of horror, and fearfull expectation of the dreadfull sentence. Oh that I could mourn over you, whilest you are joyned to all the living; whilest there is yet hope, oh that in this your day, you knew the things of your peace.