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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.
Second General Head of the Application of the Truth insisted on. Grounds of Spiritual Disquietments considered. The first; Afflictions. Ways and means of the Aggravation of Afflictions. Rules about them.
Second General Head of the Application of the Truth insisted on. Grounds of Spiritual Disquietments considered. The first; Afflictions. Waies and means of the Aggravation of Afflictions. Rules about them.
That which now lieth before us, is the second part of the second General Use educed from the Truth insisted on. Our aim is to lead on souls towards peace with God, through a gracious persuasion of their Interest in that forgiveness which is with him. And it consists, as was declared, in a Consideration of some of those disquietments which befall the minds of men, and keep them off from Establishment in this matter.
That which now lyeth before us, is the second part of the second General Use educed from the Truth insisted on. Our aim is to lead on souls towards peace with God, through a gracious perswasion of their Interest in that forgiveness which is with him. And it consists, as was declared, in a Consideration of some of those disquietments which befall the minds of men, and keep them off from Establishment in this matter.
1And first, such disquietments and objections against the peace of the soul, and its acceptance with God, will arise from Afflictions; they have done so of old, they do so in many at this day. Afflictions, I say, greatened unto the mind from their Nature, or by their Concomitants do oft-times variously affect it, and sometimes prevail to darken it so far as to ingenerate thoughts, that they are all messengers of wrath, all tokens of displeasure, and so consequently evidences that we are not par donned or accepted with God.