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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. › Verses 5, 6: Verse 5, 6.
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.
That which respects its self, is the description of that frame of heart and spirit that he was brought into, upon faiths discovery of forgiveness in God; with the duties that he applied himself unto, the grounds of it, and the manner of its performance, v. 5, 6.1 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his Word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning: I say more than they that watch for the morning.
- 1V. 5, & 6. opened.
Herein I say he describes both his frame of spirit, and the Duty he applied himself to, both as to matter and manner.
I shall, as in the method hitherto observed, first consider the reading of the Words, then their sense and importance, with the suitableness of the things mentioned in them, to the condition of ⟨p. 359⟩the soul under Consideration; all which will yield us a foundation of the Observations that are to be drawn from them.