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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.
And this is the ground of all that love without dissimulation and real Communion that is among the Saints of God in this World. But here two Cautions must be allowed,
1. That we would not Judge the State and Condition of any men in the world, no further than we are called thereunto in a way of Duty; and we are so called only with reference unto the Duties that we are to perform towards them. What have we to do to Judge them that are without, that is any one that we have not a call to consider in reference unto our own Duty. Herein that great Rule takes place; Judge not, that ye be not Judged. Let us leave all men, the worst of men, unless where evident duty requires other actings, to the Judgement seat of God. They are the Servants of another, and they stand or fall unto their own Master. There have been great miscarriages amongst us in this matter, some have been ready to condemn all that go not along with them in every principle, yea opinion or practice. And every day slight occasions and provocations, are made the grounds and reasons of severe censures. But nothing is more contrary to the conduct of the meek and holy Spirit of Christ. This is our Rule; are we called to Act towards any as Saints, as living Members of the body of Christ, and that in such Duties as we cannot perform in faith, unless we are persuaded that so they are, then are we on the grounds, and by the ways before mentioned, to satisfy our selves in one another.
1. That we would not Judge the State and Condition of any men in the world, no further than we are called thereunto in a way of Duty; and we are so called only with reference unto the Duties that we are to perform towards them. What have we to do to Judge them that are without, that is any one that we have not a call to consider in reference unto our own Duty. Herein that great Rule takes place; Judge not, that ye be not Judged. Let us leave all men, the worst of men, unless where evident duty requires other actings, to the Judgement seat of God. They are the Servants of another, and they stand or fall unto their own Master. There have been great miscarriages amongst us in this matter, some have been ready to condemn all that go not along with them in every principle, yea opinion or practice. And every day slight occasions and provocations, are made the grounds and reasons of severe censures. But nothing is more contrary to the conduct of the meek and holy Spirit of Christ. This is our Rule; are we called to Act towards any as Saints, as living Members of the body of Christ, and that in such Duties as we cannot perform in faith, unless we are perswaded that so they are, then are we on the grounds, and by the wayes before mentioned, to satisfie our selves in one another.