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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 the words themselves that he uses, according as we opened them before.
2. In the Emphatical reduplication, yea triplication of his expression of it; I wait for God, my soul waiteth for God, my soul for the Lord.
3. In the Comparison instituted between his discharge of his duty, and others performances of a corporal watch, with the greatest care and diligence; more than they that watch for the morning; So that we have,
1. The duty he performed; earnest Waiting and Expectation. 2. The Object of his waiting; Jehovah himself. 3. His Supportment in that duty, the Word of promise. 4. The Manner of his performance of it. 1. With Earnestness and diligence. 2. With Perseverance.
Let us then now Consider the Words, as they contain the frame and working of a sin entangled soul.