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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.
It cannot be denied but that they were lead into these mistakes by the Translation of the 70. and that of the Vulgar Latin, who both of them have divided these Words, quite contrary to their proper dependence; and read them thus, My soul expected the Lord. From the Morning watch to the Night watch, Let Israel trust in the Lord; so making the words to belong to the following Exhortation unto others, which are plainly a part of the expression of his own duty.
It cannot be denyed but that they were lead into these mistakes by the Translation of the 70. and that of the Vulgar Latine, who both of them have divided these Words, quite contrary to their proper dependance; and read them thus, My soul expected the Lord. From the Morning watch to the Night watch, Let Israel trust in the Lord; so making the words to belong to the following Exhortation unto others, which are plainly a part of the expression of his own duty.
The words then are a Comparison, and an Allusion unto Watchmen, and may be taken in one of these two senses.
1. In things Civil; As those who keep the Watch of the Night, do look, and long for, and expect the morning, when being dismissed from their Guard they may take that Sleep that they need and desire, which expresses a very earnest expectation, inquiry and desire, Or,