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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.
You must therefore for the right understanding of it, call to mind what hath been spoken concerning the state of the soul inquired into; its depths, entanglements, and sense of sin, with its Application unto God about those things; As also remember what hath been delivered about the nature of forgiveness, with the Revelation that is made of it unto the faith of Believers, And that this may be done, where the soul hath no refreshing sense of its own interest therein. It knows not that its own sins are forgiven, although it believes that there is forgiveness with God. Now the principal duty that is incumbent on such a soul, is that laid down in the proposition, namely, patient waiting and expectation.
You must therefore for the right understanding of it, call to mind what hath been spoken concerning the state of the soul inquired into; its depths, intanglements, and sense of sin, with its Application unto God about those things; As also remember what hath been delivered about the nature of forgiveness, with the Revelation that is made of it unto the faith of Believers, And that this may be done, where the soul hath no refreshing sense of its own interest therein. It knows not that its own sins are forgiven, although it believes that there is forgiveness with God. Now the principal duty that is incumbent on such a soul, is that laid down in the proposition, namely, patient waiting and expectation.
Two things must be done in reference hereunto: First, The nature of the duty it self is to be declared: And secondly, The necessity and usefulness of its practice is to be evinced and demonstrated.
For the Nature of it, something hath been intimated giving light into it, in the opening of the words here used by the Psalmist to express it by. But we may observe that these duties as required of us, do not consist in any particular acting of the soul, but in the whole spiritual frame and deportment of it in reference unto the End aimed at in and by them. And this waiting, as here and elsewhere commended unto us, and which is comprehensive of the especial duties of the soul in the case insisted on, and described, comprehends these three things.