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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.
The Propositions laid down, I shall briefly pass through; still with respect unto the State and Condition of the Soul, represented in the Psalm. Many things that might justly be insisted on in the improvement of these Truths, have been anticipated in our former General Rules. To them we must therefore sometimes have recourse; because they must not be again ⟨p. 364⟩repeated. On this account I say, we shall pass through them with all briefness possible; yet so as not wholly to omit any directions that are here tendered unto us, as to the guidance of the soul, whose condition and the working of whose faith is here described. This therefore in the first place is proposed.
The Propositions laid down, I shall briefly pass through; still with respect unto the State and Condition of the Soul, represented in the Psalm. Many things that might justly be insisted on in the improvement of these Truths, have been anticipated in our former General Rules. To them we must therefore sometimes have recourse; because they must not be again ⟨p. 364⟩repeated. On this account I say, we shall pass through them with all briefness possible; yet so as not wholly to omit any directions that are here tendred unto us, as to the guidance of the soul, whose condition and the working of whose faith is here described. This therefore in the first place is proposed.
The first proper fruit of faiths discovery of forgiveness in God unto a sin-distressed soul, is waiting in patience and expectation.
1This the Psalmist openly and directly applies himself unto, and expresseth to have been as his duty, so his practice. And he doth it so emphatically, as was manifested in the opening of the words, that I know not that any duty is any where in the Scripture so recommended and lively represented unto us.