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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.
Men with a sense of the guilt of sin, having some discovery made to them of the Rest Ease and Peace which they may obtain to their souls by forgiveness, are ready to catch greedily at it, and to make false, unsound, undue applications of it unto themselves. They cannot bear the yoke that the Lord hath put upon them, but grow impatient under it, and cry with Rachel, Give me children or I dye. Any way they would obtain it. Now as the first duty of such a soul is to apply its self unto waiting; so the first entrance into waiting consists in this Silence and Quietness of heart and spirit. This is the souls endeavour to keep its self humble, satisfied with the sovereign pleasure of God in its condition, and refusing all ways and means of Rest and Peace, but what it is guided and directed unto by the Word and Spirit.
Men with a sense of the guilt of sin, having some discovery made to them of the Rest Ease and Peace which they may obtain to their souls by forgiveness, are ready to catch greedily at it, and to make false, unsound, undue applications of it unto themselves. They cannot bear the yoak that the Lord hath put upon them, but grow impatient under it, and cry with Rachel, Give me children or I dye. Any way they would obtain it. Now as the first duty of such a soul is to apply its self unto waiting; so the first entrance into waiting consists in this Silence and Quietness of heart and spirit. This is the souls endeavour to keep its self humble, satisfied with the soveraign pleasure of God in its condition, and refusing all waies and means of Rest and Peace, but what it is guided and directed unto by the Word and Spirit.
2. As it is opposed unto Haste, so it is unto tumultuating thoughts, and vexatious disquietments; the soul is silent, Psal. 39. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. He redoubles the expression, whereby he sets out his endeavour to quiet and still his soul in the Will of God. In the condition discoursed of, the soul is apt to have many tumultuating thoughts, or a multitude of perplexing thoughts of no use or advantage unto it. How they are to be watched against and rejected, was before declared in our General Rules. This Quietness in waiting will prevent them. And this is the first thing in the duty prescribed.