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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.
3. That it may be a stone of offence, and a stumbling block unto wicked men, who are to be hardened in their sins, and prepared for ruin. When they see that all things fall alike unto all, and that those who have made the strictest profession of the name and fear of God, fare no better than themselves, they are encouraged to despise the warnings of God, and the strokes of his hand; and so to rush on unto the destruction whereunto they are prepared.
3. That it may be a stone of offence, and a stumbling block unto wicked men, who are to be hardened in their sins, and prepared for ruine. When they see that all things fall alike unto all, and that those who have made the strictest profession of the name and fear of God, fare no better than themselves, they are encouraged to despise the warnings of God, and the strokes of his hand; and so to rush on unto the destruction whereunto they are prepared.
4. God doth it to proclaim unto all the world, that what he doth here is no final Judgement, and ultimate determination concerning things and persons. For who can see the wise man dying as the fool, the Righteous and Holy perishing in their outward concernments, as the ungodly and wicked, but must conclude, that the Righteous God the Judge of all, hath appointed another day, wherein all things must be called over again, and every one then receive his final Reward, according ⟨p. 391⟩as his works shall appear to have been. And thus are we to humble our selves unto the Righteousness wherewith the hand of God is always accompanied.
4. God doth it to proclaim unto all the world, that what he doth here is no final Judgement, and ultimate determination concerning things and persons. For who can see the wise man dying as the fool, the Righteous and Holy perishing in their outward concernments, as the ungodly and wicked, but must conclude, that the Righteous God the Judge of all, hath appointed another day, wherein all things must be called over again, and every one then receive his final Reward, according