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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.
1. His Eternity. This Moses proposeth to bring the souls of Believers to submission, trust and waiting, Psal. 90. 1. From Everlasting to Everlasting thou art God. One that hath his Being and subsistence not in a duration of time, but in Eternity it self: So doth Habakkuk also, chap. 1. 12. My Lord, my God, my Holy One, art thou not from Everlasting: And hence he draws his conclusion against making hast in any condition, and for tarrying and waiting for God. The like Consideration is managed by David also, Psal. 102. 27. How unconceivable is this glorious divine Property unto the thoughts and minds of men? How weak are the ways and terms whereby they go about to express it? One says it is a nunc stans; another that it is a perpetual Duration. He that says most, only signifies what he knows of what it is not. We are of Yesterday, change every moment, and are leaving our station to morrow. God is still the same, was so before the world was, from Eternity. And now I cannot think what I have said, but only have intimated what I adore. The whole Duration of the world from the beginning unto the end, takes up no space in this Eternity of God. Fow how long soever it hath continued, or may yet continue, it will all amount but to so many thousand years, so long a time; and time hath no place in Eternity. And for us who have in this matter to do with God, what is our continuance unto that of the world? a moment as it were in comparison of the whole. When mens lives were of old prolonged beyond the date & continuance of Empires or Kingdoms now, yet ⟨p. 379⟩this was the winding up of all; such a one lived so many years, and then he dyed, Gen. 5. And what are we poor worms, whose lives are measured by inches in comparison of their span? what are we before the Eternal God? God always immutably subsisting in his own Infinite Being? A real Consideration hereof will subdue the soul into a condition of dependence on him, and of waiting for him.
1. His Eternity. This Moses proposeth to bring the souls of Believers to submission, trust and waiting, Psal. 90. 1