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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.
2. Perseverance in waiting is assuredly prevalent; and this renders it a necessary part of the duty it self. If we continue to wait for the vision of peace, it will come, it will not tarry but answer our expectation of it. Never soul miscarried that abode in this duty unto the end. The Joys of Heaven may sometimes prevent consolations in this life; God sometimes gives in the full Harvest without sending of the first fruits aforehand; But Spiritual or Eternal peace and Rest is the infallible End of permanent waiting for God.
2. Perseverance in waiting is assuredly prevalent; and this renders it a necessary part of the duty it self. If we continue to wait for the vision of peace, it will come, it will not tarry but answer our expectation of it. Never soul miscarried that abode in this duty unto the end. The Joyes of Heaven may sometimes prevent consolations in this life; God sometimes gives in the full Harvest without sending of the first fruits aforehand; But Spiritual or Eternal peace and Rest is the infallible End of permanent waiting for God.
This is the Duty that the Psalmist declares himself to be engaged in, upon the encouraging discovery which was made unto him of forgiveness in God. There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared, I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope: And this is that which in the like condition is required of us. This is the great direction which was given us in the Example and practice of the Psalmist, as to our Duty and deportment in the condition described. This was the Way whereby he rose out of his depths and escaped out of his entanglements? Is this then the state of any of us; let such take directions from hence.
This is the Duty that the Psalmist declares himself to be ingaged in, upon the incouraging discovery which was made unto him of forgiveness in God. There is forgiveness with thee that thou maist be feared, I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope: And this is that which in the like condition is required of us. This is the great direction which was given us in the Example and practice of the Psalmist, as to our Duty and deportment in the condition described. This was the Way whereby he rose out of his depths and escaped out of his entanglements? Is this then the state of any of us; let such take directions from hence.