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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 › Section
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.
That the proper object of a sin distressed souls waiting and expectation, is God himself as revealed in Christ. I have saith the Psalmist waited for Jehovah; It is not this or that mercy, or Grace, this or that help or relief; but it is Jehovah himself that I wait for.
Here then we must do two things, first, show in what sense, God himself is the object of the waiting of the soul. (2.) How it appears from hence that waiting is so necessary a Duty.
Here then we must do two things, first, shew in what sense, God himself is the object of the waiting of the soul. (2.) How it appears from hence that waiting is so necessary a Duty.
1. It is the Lord himself, Jehovah himself, that the soul waiteth for. It is not Grace, mercy, or relief absolutely considered, but the God of all Grace and help, that is the full adequate object of the souls waiting and Expectation; only herein he is not considered absolutely in his own Nature; but as there is forgiveness with him, What is required hereunto, hath been at large before declared. It is as he is revealed in and by Jesus Christ; as in him he hath found a Ransom, and accepted the Atonement for sinners in his blood; as he is a God in Covenant; so he is himself the Object of our waiting. And that,
1. It is the Lord himself, Jehovah himself, that the soul waiteth for. It is not Grace, mercy, or relief absolutely considered, but the God of all Grace and help, that is the full adaequate object of the souls waiting and Expectation; only herein he is not considered absolutely in his own Nature; but as there is forgiveness with him, What is required hereunto, hath been at large before declared. It is as he is revealed in and by Jesus Christ; as in him he hath found a Ransome, and accepted the Attonement for sinners in his blood; as he is a God in Covenant; so he is himself the Object of our waiting. And that,