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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. But this is not all, We are not only such sinners, as to render these dispensations of God evidently holy, these Judgements of his righteous, but also to manifest, that they are accompanied with unspeakable patience, mercy and Grace. To instance in one particular. Is it the burning of our houses, the spoiling of our Goods, the ruin of our estates alone that our sins have deserved? if God had made the temporary fire on earth, to have been unto us a way of entrance into the Eternal fire of hell, we had not had whereof righteously to complain. May we not then see a mixture of unspeakable patience, grace and mercy in every dispensation? and shall we then repine against it? Is it not better advice, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee; for a sinner out of hell not to rest in the will of God, not to humble himself under his mighty hand, is to make himself guilty of the especial sin of hell. Other sins deserve it, but repining against God is principally, yea only committed in it. The Church comes to a blessed quieting resolution in this case, Micah. 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; bear it quietly, patiently, and submit under his hand therein.
2. But this is not all, We are not only such sinners, as to render these dispensations of God evidently holy, these Judgements of his righteous, but also to manifest, that they are accompanied with unspeakable patience, mercy and Grace. To instance in one particular. Is it the burning of our houses, the spoiling of our Goods, the ruine of our estates alone that our sins have deserved? if God had made the temporary fire on earth, to have been unto us a way of entrance into the Eternal fire of hell, we had not had whereof righteously to complain. May we not then see a mixture of unspeakable patience, grace and mercy in every dispensation? and shall we then repine against it? Is it not better advice, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee; for a sinner out of hell not to rest in the will of God, not to humble himself under his mighty hand, is to make himself guilty of the especial sin of hell. Other sins deserve it, but repining against God is principally, yea only committed in it. The Church comes to a blessed quieting resolution in this case, Micah. 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; bear it quietly, patiently, and submit under his hand therein.