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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.
3. Thoughts of the Holiness of God, or infinite self-purity of this Eternal Immense Being, are singularly useful to the same purpose. This is that which Eliphaz affirms that he received by vision, to reply to the complaint and impatience of Job, chap. 14. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 17, 18, 19. After he hath declared his vision, with the manner of it, this he affirms to be the Revelation that by voice was made unto him: Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold be puts no trust in his Servants, and his Angels he chargeth with folly. How much less on them that dwell in houses of Clay; whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? If the Saints and Angels in Heaven do not answer this infinite Holiness of God in their most perfect condition, is it meet for Worms of the Earth to suppose that any thing which proceeds from him is not absolutely Holy and perfect, and so best for them? This is the fiery property of the nature of God, whence he is called a Consuming fire, and Everlasting burnings: And the Law whereon he had impressed some representation of it, is called a fiery Law, as that which will consume and burn up whatever is perverse and evil. Hence the Prophet who had a representation of the Glory of God in a vision, and heard the Seraphims proclaiming his Holiness, cried out, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, Isa. 6. 5. He thought it impossible that he should bear that near approach of the Holiness of God. And with the remembrance hereof doth Joshua still the people with the terror of the Lord, chap. 14. 19. Let such souls then as are under troubles and perplexities on any account, endeavour to exercise their thoughts about this infinite Purity and fiery Holiness of God. They will quickly find it their wisdom to become as weaned children before him, and content themselves with what he shall guide unto them, which is to wait for him. This fiery Holiness streams from his Throne, Dan. 7. 10. and would quickly consume the whole Creation, as now under the curse, and sin, were it not for the interposing of Jesus Christ.
3. Thoughts of the Holiness of God, or infinite self-purity of this Eternal Immense Being, are singularly usefull to the same purpose. This is that which Eliphaz affirms that he received by vision, to reply to the complaint and impatience of