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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.
4. Afflictions find some entangled with very strong corruptions, as Love of the World, or the pleasure of it, of Name or Reputation, of great contrivances for posterity, and the like; or it may be in things carnal or sensual. Now when these unexpectedly meet together, great Afflictions and strong Corruptions, it is not conconceivable what a combustion they will make in the soul. As a strong medicine or potion meeting with a strong or tough distemper in the body; there is a violent contention in nature between them and about them, so that oftentimes the very life of the patient is endangered. So it is where a great trial, a smart stroke of the hand of God, falls upon a person in the midst of his pursuit of the Effects of some corruptions; the soul is amazed even to distraction, and can scarce have any thought, but that God is come to cut the person off in the midst of his sin. Every unmortified corruption fills the very fear and expectation of Affliction, with horror. And there is good Reason that so it should do; for although God should be merciful unto mens Iniquities, yet if he should come to take Vengeance of their Inventions, their condition would be dark and sorrowful.
4. Afflictions find some entangled with very strong corruptions, as Love of the World, or the pleasure of it, of Name or Reputation, of great contrivances for posterity, and the like; or it may be in things carnal or sensual. Now when these unexpectedly meet together, great Afflictions and strong Corruptions, it is not conconceivable what a combustion they will make in the soul. As a strong medicine or potion meeting with a strong or tough distemper in the body; there is a violent contention in nature between them and about them, so that oftentimes the very life of the patient is endangered. So it is where a great tryal, a smart stroke of the hand of God, falls upon a person in the midst of his pursuit of the Effects of some corruptions; the soul is amazed even to distraction, and can scarce have any thought, but that God is come to cut the person off in the midst of his sin. Every unmortified corruption fills the very fear and expectation of Affliction, with horrour. And there is good Reason that so it should do; for although God should be merciful unto mens Iniquities, yet if he should come to take Vengeance of their Inventions, their condition would be dark and sorrowful.