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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.
And hence it is that in public Judgements and Calamities God oftentimes suffers the Godly to be involved with the wicked, and that not on the account of their own persons, but as they are parts of that body which he will destroy. This Job expresseth somewhat harshly, but there is truth in his Assertion, chap. 9. 22, 23. This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the ⟨p. 390⟩righteous with the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly he will laugh at the trial of the Innocent. God in public desolations oftentimes takes good and bad together; a sudden scourge involves them all; and this God doth for sundry Reasons: As,
And hence it is that in publick Judgements and Calamities God oftentimes suffers the Godly to be involved with the wicked, and that not on the account of their own persons, but as they are parts of that body which he will destroy. This Job expresseth somewhat harshly, but there is truth in his Assertion, chap. 9. 22, 23. This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the ⟨p. 390⟩righteous with the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly he will laugh at the tryal of the Innocent. God in publick desolations oftentimes takes good and bad together; a sudden scourge involves them all; and this God doth for sundry Reasons: As,
1. That he may manifest his own Holiness; which is such that he can without the least Injustice or Oppression, even upon the account of their own provocations, take away the houses, possessions, estates, liberties, and lives of the best of his own Saints. For how should a man, any man, the best of men, be just with God if he would contend with him? No man can answer to him one of a thousand, Job 9. 31. This they will also own and acknowledge; upon the account of Righteousness, none can open his mouth about his Judgements, without the highest impiety and wickedness.