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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. Remember that a time of Affliction is a time of Temptation. Satan, as we have showed, will not be wanting unto any appearing Opportunity or Advantage of setting upon the soul. When Pharaoh heard that the people were entangled in the wilderness, he pursued them. And when Satan sees a soul entangled with it's distresses and troubles, he thinks it his time and hour to assault it. He seeks to winnow, and comes when the Corn is under the flail. Reckon therefore that when trouble cometh, the Prince of the world cometh also, that you may be provided for him. Now is the time to take the shield of faith, that we may be able to quench his fiery darts. If they be neglected, they will inflame the soul. Watch therefore and pray that you enter not into Temptation; that Satan do not represent God falsely unto you. He that durst represent Job falsely to the All-seeing God, will with much boldness represent God falsely unto us, who see and know so little. Be not then ignorant of his devices; but every way set your selves against his interposing between God and your souls, in a matter which he hath nothing to do withal. Let not this make-bate by any means inflame the difference.
4. Remember that a time of Affliction is a time of Temptation. Satan, as we have shewed, will not be wanting unto any appearing Opportunity or Advantage of setting upon the soul. When Pharaoh heard that the people were intangled in the wilderness, he pursued them. And when Satan sees a soul intangled with it's distresses and troubles, he thinks it his time and hour to assault it. He seeks to winnow, and comes when the Corn is under the flail. Reckon therefore that when trouble cometh, the Prince of the world cometh also, that you may be provided for him. Now is the time to take the shield of faith, that we may be able to quench his fiery darts. If they be neglected, they will enflame the soul. Watch therefore and pray that you enter not into Temptation; that Satan do not represent God falsly unto you. He that durst represent Job falsly to the All-seeing God, will with much boldness represent God falsly unto us, who see and know so little. Be not then ignorant of his devices; but every way set your selves against his interposing between God and your souls, in a matter which he hath nothing to do withall. Let not this make-bate by any means inflame the difference.