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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.
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. ⟨p. 365⟩(1.) Quietness, in Opposition to haste, and tumultuating of spirit. (2.) Diligence in Opposition to spiritual sloth, despondency and neglect of means. (3.) Expectation in Opposition to despair, distrust, and other proper immediate actings of unbelief.
11. Quietness. Hence this waiting it self is sometimes expressed by silence. To wait, is to be silent, Lam. 3. 6. It is good both to hope, [Greek or Hebrew] and to be silent for the salvation of the Lord; that is, to wait quietly, as we have rendered the word. And the same word we render sometimes to rest. as Psal. 37. 7. Rest on the Lord, [Greek or Hebrew] be silent unto him; where it is joined with hoping or waiting, as that which belongs unto the nature of it; and so in sundry other places. And this God in an especial manner calleth souls unto in straights and distresses. In quietness and confidence, saith he, shall be your strength, Isa. 30. 15. And the effect of the Righteousness of God by Christ, is said to be Quietness and Assurance for ever, Isa. 32. 17. First Quietness, and then Assurance. Now this silence and quietness which accompanieth waiting, yea which is an essential part of it, is opposed first to Haste; and Haste is the souls undue lifting up its self, proceeding from a weariness of its condition, to press after an end of its troubles, not according to the conduct of the Spirit of God. Thus when God calleth his people to waiting, he expresseth the contrary acting unto this duty, by the lifting up of the soul,