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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 1, 2 › 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.
Secondly, There are sins which though they do not rise up in the conscience with such a bloody guilt, as those mentioned, yet by reason of some circumstances and aggravations, God takes them so unkindly, as to make them a root of disquietness and trouble to the soul all its days. He says of some sins of ungodly men, as I live this iniquity shall not be purged from you until ye dye? If you are come to this height, you shall not escape, I will not spare you. And there are Provocations in his own People, which may be so circumstantiated, as that he will not let them pass, before he have cast them into depths, and made them cry out for deliverance. Let us consider some of them.
Secondly, There are sins which though they do not rise up in the conscience with such a bloody guilt, as those mentioned, yet by reason of some circumstances and aggravations, God takes them so unkindly, as to make them a root of disquietness and trouble to the soul all its dayes. He sayes of some sins of ungodly men, as I live this iniquity shall not be purged from you until ye dye? If you are come to this height, you shall not escape, I will not spare you. And there are Provocations in his own People, which may be so circumstantiated, as that he will not let them pass, before he have cast them into depths, and made them cry out for deliverance. Let us consider some of them.
First, Miscarriages under signal Enjoyments of love and kindness from God, are of this sort. When God hath given unto any one expressive manifestations of his Love, convinced him of it, made him say in the inmost parts of his heart, this is undeserved love and kindness, then for him to be negligent in his walking with God, it carrieth an unkindness with it, that shall not be forgotten. It is a remark upon the miscarriages of Solomon, that he fell into them after God had appeared unto him twice. And all sins under or after especial mercies, will meet at one time or other especial rebukes. Nothing doth more distress the conscience of a sinner, then the remembrance in darkness of abused light; in desertions of neglected love. This God will make them sensible of. Though I have redeemed them, saith ⟨p. 25⟩