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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.
11. That God judgeth not as man judgeth. We judge by the seeing of the Eye, and hearing of the Ear, according to outward appearances and evidences. But God searcheth the heart. We judge upon what is between man and man, God principally upon what is between himself and man. And what do we know or understand of these things? or what there is in the heart of man; what purposes, what contrivances, what designs, what corrupt affections, what sins, what transactions have been between God and them; what warnings he hath given them, what reproofs, what engagements they have made, what convictions they have had, what use they were putting their lives, their substance, their families unto? Alas; we know nothing of these things, and so are able to make no judgement of the ⟨p. 389⟩proceedings of God upon them; but this we know, that he is Righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works; yea the most terrible of them: And when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed, ah how glorious will be his drowning of the old world, firing of Sodom, swallowing up of Dathan and Abiram in the earth, the utter rejection of the Jews, with all other acts of his Providence seeming to be accompanied with severity? And so will our own Trials inward or outward appear to be.
11. That God judgeth not as man judgeth. We judge by the seeing of the Eye, and hearing of the Ear, according to outward appearances and evidences. But God searcheth the heart. We judge upon what is between man and man, God principally upon what is between himself and man. And what do we know or understand of these things? or what there is in the heart of man; what purposes, what contrivances, what designs, what corrupt affections, what sins, what transactions have been between God and them; what warnings he hath given them, what reproofs, what ingagements they have made, what convictions they have had, what use they were putting their lives, their substance, their families unto? Alas; we know nothing of these things, and so are able to make no judgement of the ⟨p. 389⟩proceedings of God upon them; but this we know, that he is Righteous in all his waies, and holy in all his works; yea the most terrible of them: And when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed, ah how glorious will be his drowning of the old world, firing of Sodom, swallowing up of Dathan and Abiram in the earth, the utter rejection of the Jews, with all other acts of his Providence seeming to be accompanied with severity? And so will our own Tryals inward or outward appear to be.