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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.
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,
2. In things Sacred; With the Chaldee Paraphrast, which renders the words, more than they that look for the morning watch, which they carefully observe, that they may offer the Morning Sacrifice. In this sense, as faith he, the Warders and Watchers in the Temple, do look diligently after the Appearance of the Morning that they may with Joy offer the Morning Sacrifice in the appointed season; So, and with more diligence doth my Soul wait for Jehovah.
You see the reading of the words; and how far the sense of them opens it self unto us by that consideration.
Let us then nextly see briefly the several parts of them, as they stand in Relation one to another. We have then, 1. The Expression of the Duty wherein he was exercised, and that is earnest waiting for Jehovah. 2. The bottom and foundation of that his waiting and expectation; that is the Word of God; the word of promise, he diligently bopped in the Word. 3. The Frame of his Spirit in, and the manner of his performance of this Duty; Expressed.