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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.
2. No length or continuance of Afflictions ought to be any impeachment of our spiritual consolation. Take for the confirmation hereof, the great Example of the Son of God. How long did his Afflictions continue? what end or issue was put to them? No longer did they abide than until he cried with a loud voice and gave up the Ghost. To the moment of his death; from his Manger to his Cross, his Afflictions still increased, and he ended his days in the midst of them. Now he was the Head of the Church, and the great Representative of it; unto a conformity with whom we are predestinated. And if God will have it so with us, even in this particular, so as that we shall have no rest, no peace from our trials, until we lye down in the Grave, that whatever condition we pass through, they shall be shut out of none, but only from Immortality and Glory, what have we herein to complain of?
2. No length or continuance of Afflictions ought to be any impeachment of our spiritual consolation. Take for the confirmation hereof, the great Example of the Son of God. How long did his Afflictions continue? what end or issue was put to them? No longer did they abide than until he cryed with a loud voice and gave up the Ghost. To the moment of his death; from his Manger to his Cross, his Afflictions still increased, and he ended his daies in the midst of them. Now he was the Head of the Church, and the great Representative of it; unto a conformity with whom we are predestinated. And if God will have it so with us, even in this particular, so as that we shall have no rest, no peace from our trials, until we lye down in the Grave, that whatever condition we pass through, they shall be shut out of none, but only from Immortality and Glory, what have we herein to complain of?
3. Where the Remembrance and perplexing sense of past sins is revived by present afflictions; separate them in your minds, and deal distinctly about them. So long as you carry on the consideration of them jointly, you will be rolled from one to another, and never obtain rest unto your souls. They will mutually aggravate each other. The sharpness of Affliction will add to the bitterness of the sense of sin; and the sense of sin will give an edge to Affliction, and cause it to pierce deeply into the soul, as we showed in the former instances. Deal therefore distinctly about them, and in their proper order. So doth the Psalmist here. He had at present both upon him, and together they brought him into these depths concerning which he so cries out for deliverance from them; see