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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.
And this on the Word; or he sustained his soul with the Word of promise that it should not utterly faint. Seeing he had made a discovery of Grace and forgiveness, though yet at a great distance; he had a sight of Land, though he was yet in a storm at Sea; and therefore encourageth himself, or his soul, that it do not despond.
And this on the Word; or he sustained his soul with the Word of promise that it should not utterly faint. Seeing he had made a discovery of Grace and forgiveness, though yet at a great distance; he had a sight of Land, though he was yet in a storm at Sea; and therefore incourageth himself, or his soul, that it do not despond.
But yet all this that we have spoken reaches not the intenseness of the soul of the Psalmist in this his Expectation of Jehovah. The earnest engagement of his soul in this duty riseth up above what he can express. Therefore he proceeds, ver. 6. My Soul, saith he, for the Lord, (that is, expects him, looks for him, waits for his coming to me in Love and with forgiveness) more than the watchers for the morning, the watchers for the morning.
But yet all this that we have spoken reaches not the intensness of the soul of the Psalmist in this his Expectation of Jehovah. The earnest engagement of his soul in this duty riseth up above what he can express. Therefore he proceeds, ver. 6. My Soul, saith he, for the Lord, (that is, expects him, looks for him, waits for his coming to me in Love and with forgiveness) more than the watchers for the morning, the watchers for the morning.
These latter words are variously rendered, and variously expounded. The LXX. and vulgar Latin render them; from the Morning watch, until night. Others, from those that keep the Morning watch unto those that keep the Evening watch. More than the watchers in the morning, more than the Watchers in the Morning.