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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 1, 2 › Section
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.
Secondly, Add hereunto, the power and prevalency of temptation; which because also, I have already in a special Discourse to that purpose insisted on, I shall not here farther lay open.
1Thirdly, The Sovereign pleasure of God in dealing with sinning Saints must also be considered. Divine Love and Wisdom work not towards all in the same manner. God is pleased to continue Peace unto some with a non-obstante, for great provocations. Love shall humble them, and rebukes of kindness shall recover them from their wanderings. Others he is pleased to bring into the depths we have been speaking of. But yet I may say generally signal provocations, meet with one of these two events from God.
1Thirdly, The Soveraign pleasure of God in dealing with sinning Saints must also be considered. Divine Love and Wisdom work not towards all in the same manner. God is pleased to continue Peace unto some with a non-obstante, for great provocations. Love shall humble them, and rebukes of kindness shall recover them from their wandrings. Others he is pleased to bring into the depths we have been speaking of. But yet I may say generally signal provocations, meet with one of these two events from God.
- 1Gods Sovereignty in dealing with Believers in their sins.Gods Soveraignty in dealing with Believers in their sins.
First, Those in whom they are, are left unto some signal barrenness, ⟨p. 23⟩and fruitlessness in their Generations; they shall wither, grow barren, worldly, sapless, and be much cast out of the hearts of the people of God. Or Secondly, They shall be exercised in these depths, from whence their way of deliverance is laid down in this Psalm. Thus I say, God deals with his Saints in great variety: Some shall have all their bones broken, when others shall have only the gentle strokes of the rod. We are in the hand of Mercy, and he may deal with us as seems good unto him; but for our parts, great sins, ought to be attended with expectations of great depths and perplexities.