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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.
5. It is good to consider the instances that God hath given of this his Infinite Greatness, Power, Majesty and Glory. Such was his mighty work of creating all things out of nothing. We dwell on little Mole-hills in the Earth, and yet we know the least part of the excellency of that spot of ground which is given us for our habitation here below. But what is it unto the whole habitable world, and the fullness thereof? And what an amazing thing is its Greatness, with the wide and large Sea, with all sorts of creatures therein. The least of these hath a beauty, a glory, an excellency, that the utmost of our enquiries end in admiration of. And all this is but the Earth, the lower depressed part of the world. What shall we say concerning the Heavens over us, and all these creatures of Light that have their habitations in them? who can conceive the beauty, order, use and course of them? The consideration hereof caused the Psalmist to cry out, Lord our Lord, how excellent and glorious art thou! Psal. 8. 1. And what is the rise, spring, and cause of these things? Are they not all the effect of the Word of the Power of this glorious God? And doth he not in them, and by them speak us into a Reverence of his Greatness? the like also may be said concerning his mighty and strange works of Providence in the Rule of the World. Is not this he who brought the Flood of old upon the world of ungodly men? Is it not he who consumed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from Heaven, setting them forth as Examples unto them that should afterwards live ungodly, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire? Is it not he who destroyed Egypt with his Plagues, and drowned Pharaoh with his Host in the red Sea? Is it not he, one of whose servants flew an hundred and fourscore and five thousand in Sennacherib's Army in one night? that opened the Earth to swallow up Dathan and Abiram? and sent out fire from the Altar to devour Nadab and Abibu? and have not all ages been filled with such instances of his Greatness and Power?
5. It is good to consider the instances that God hath given of this his Infinite Greatness, Power, Majesty and Glory. Such was his mighty work of creating all things out of nothing. We dwell on little Mole-hills in the Earth, and yet we know the least part of the excellency of that spot of ground which is given us for our habitation here below. But what is it unto the whole habitable world, and the fulness thereof? And what an amazing thing is its Greatness, with the wide and large Sea, with all sorts of creatures therein. The least of these hath a beauty, a glory, an excellency, that the utmost of our enquiries end in admiration of. And all this is but the Earth, the lower depressed part of the world. What shall we say concerning the Heavens over us, and all these creatures of Light that have their habitations in them? who can conceive the beauty, order, use and course of them? The consideration hereof caused the Psalmist to cry out, Lord our Lord, how excellent and glorious art thou!