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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.
2. God is Judge of all the world, of all ages, times, places, persons, and disposeth of all so as they may tend unto the good of the whole, and his own Glory in the universe. Our thoughts are bounded, much more our Observations and Abilities to measure things, within a very small compass. Every thing stands alone unto us, whereby we see little of its beauty or order; nor do know how it ought justly to be disposed of. That particular may seem deformed unto us, which when it is under his eye, who sees all at once, past, present and to come, with all those joints and bands of Wisdom and Order, whereby things are related unto one another, is beautiful and glorious; for as nothing is of its self, nor by its self, nor to its self, so nothing stands alone; but there is a line of mutual respect that runs through the Creation, and every particular of it, and that in all its changes and alterations from the beginning to the end, which gives it its Loveliness, Life and Order. He that can at once see but one part of a goodly statua or Colossus, might think it a very deformed piece; when he that views it altogether, is assured of its due proportion symmetry and loveliness. Now all things, ages and persons, all thus at once are objected unto the sight of God, and he disposeth them with respect unto the whole, that every one may fill up its own place, and sustain its part and share in the common tendency of all to the same end.
2. God is Judge of all the world, of all ages, times, places, persons, and disposeth of all so as they may tend unto the good of the whole, and his own Glory in the universe. Our thoughts are bounded, much more our Observations and Abilities to measure things, within a very small compass. Every thing stands alone unto us, whereby we see little of its beauty or order; nor do know how it ought justly to be disposed of. That particular may seem deformed unto us, which when it is under his eye, who sees all at once, past, present and to come, with all those joynts and bands of Wisdom and Order, whereby things are related unto one another, is beautifull and glorious; for as nothing is of its self, nor by its self, nor to its self, so nothing stands alone; but there is a line of mutual respect that runs through the Creation, and every particular of it, and that in all its changes and alterations from the beginning to the end, which gives it its Loveliness, Life and Order. He that can at once see but one part of a goodly statua or Colossus, might think it a very deformed piece; when he that views it altogether, is assured of its due proportion symmetry and loveliness. Now all things, ages and persons, all thus at once are objected unto the sight of God, and he disposeth them with respect unto the whole, that every one may fill up its own place, and sustain its part and share in the common tendency of all to the same end.