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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. Consider that in this frail condition, we have all greatly sinned against God. So did Job. chap. 7. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? If this consideration will not satisfy thy mind, yet it will assuredly stop the mouths of all the Sons of men. Though all the Curses of the Law should be executed upon us, yet every mouth must be stopped, because all the world is become guilty before God, Rom. 3. 19. And why should a living man complain, saith the Prophet, Lament. 3. 39. Why, it may be, it is because that his trouble is great and inexpressible, and such as seldom or never befell any before him; but what then, saith he, shall a man complain against the punishment of his sins? If this living man be a sinful man, as there is none that liveth and sinneth not, whatever his state and condition be, he hath no ground of murmuring or complaint. For a sinful man to complain, especially whilst he is yet a living man, is most unreasonable. For,
2. Consider that in this frail condition, we have all greatly sinned against God. So did Job. chap. 7. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? If this consideration will not satisfie thy mind, yet it will assuredly stop the mouths of all the Sons of men. Though all the Curses of the Law should be executed upon us, yet every mouth must be stopped, because all the world is become guilty before God, Rom. 3. 19. And why should a living man complain, saith the Prophet, Lament. 3. 39. Why, it may be, it is because that his trouble is great and inexpressible, and such as seldom or never befell any before him; but what then, saith he, shall a man complain against the punishment of his sins? If this living man be a sinful man, as there is none that liveth and sinneth not, whatever his state and condition be, he hath no ground of murmuring or complaint. For a sinful man to complain, especially whilest he is yet a living man, is most unreasonable. For,