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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.
1. Whatever hath befallen us, It is just on the account that we are sinners before God; and to repine against the judgements of God that are rendered evidently righteous upon the account of sin, is to anticipate the Condition of the damned in hell, a great part of whose misery it is, that they always repine against that sentence and punishment which they know to be most righteous and holy. If this were now a place, if that were now my design to treat of the sins of all professors, how easy were it to stop the mouths of all men about their troubles. But that is not my present business, I speak unto particular persons, and that not with an especial design to convince them of their sins, but to humble their souls. Another season may be taken to press that Consideration, directly and professedly also. At present, let us only, when our souls are ready to be entangled with the thoughts of any severe dispensation of God, and our own particular pressures, troubles, miseries occasioned thereby, turn into our selves and take a view every one of his own personal provocations. And when we have done so, see what we have to say to God, what we have to Complain of: let the man hold his tongue and let the sinner speak. Is not God holy, righteous, wise in what he hath done? and if he be, why do we not subscribe unto his ways, and submit quietly unto his Will?
1. Whatever hath befallen us, It is just on the account that we are sinners before God; and to repine against the judgements of God that are rendred evidently righteous upon the account of sin, is to anticipate the Condition of the damned in hell, a great part of whose misery it is, that they alwayes repine against that sentence and punishment which they know to be most righteous and holy. If this were now a place, if that were now my design to treat of the sins of all professors, how easie were it to stop the mouths of all men about their troubles. But that is not my present business, I speak unto particular persons, and that not with an especial design to convince them of their sins, but to humble their souls. Another season may be taken to press that Consideration, directly and prosessedly also. At present, let us only, when our souls are ready to be entangled with the thoughts of any severe dispensation of God, and our own particular pressures, troubles, miseries occasioned thereby, turn into our selves and take a view every one of his own personal provocations. And when we have done so, see what we have to say to God, what we have to Complain of: let the man hold his tongue and let the sinner speak. Is not God holy, righteous, wise in what he hath done? and if he be, why do we not subscribe unto his wayes, and submit quietly unto his Will?