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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.
During this state the soul meets with many Oppositions, difficulties and perplexities, especially if its darkness be of long continuance, as with some it abides many years, with some all the days of their lives. Their hope being hereby deferred, makes their hearts sick, and their spirit oftentimes to faint; and this fainting is a defect in waiting, for want of perseverance and continuance which frustrates the End of it. So David, Psal. 27. 13. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord. Had I not received supportment by faith, I had fainted. And wherein doth that consist? what was the fainting which he had been overtaken withal without the supportment mentioned? it was a relinquishment of waiting on God, as he manifests by the Exhortation which he gives to himself and others, v. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait I say on the Lord. Wait with courage and resolution that thou faint not. And the Apostle puts the blessed Event of Faith and Obedience upon the avoidance of this evil, Gal. 6. 9. We shall reap if we faint not. Hence we have both encouragements given against it, and promises ⟨p. 371⟩that in the way of God we shall not be overtaken with it. Consider the Lord Christ, saith the Apostle, the Captain of your salvation, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds, Heb. 12. 3. Nothing else can cause you to come short of the mark aimed at. And they, saith the Prophet, who wait on the Lord, that is in the use of the means by him appointed, shall not faint, Isa. 40. 11.
During this state the soul meets with many Oppositions, difficulties and perplexities, especially if its darkness be of long continuance, as with some it abides many years, with some all the daies of their lives. Their hope being hereby deferred, makes their hearts sick, and their spirit oftentimes to faint; and this fainting is a defect in waiting, for want of perseverance and continuance which frustrates the End of it. So David, Psal. 27. 13