Owen: "There are also other ways whereby sinful souls destryo themselves by false reliefs. Diversions from their perplexing thoughfulness please them. They will fix on something or other that cannot cure their disease, but shall only make them forget that they are sick; as Cain, under the terror of his guilt, departed from the presence of the Lord, and sought inward rest in outward labor and employment. He went and built a city, (Gen. 4:17). Such courses Saul fixed on; first music, then a witch. [sinful souls] they strive to stifle the guilt of one sin with another. They fly from themselves unto themselves, from their consciences unto their lusts, and seek for relief from sin by sinning. This is so far from believers, that they will not allow lawful things to be a diversion of their distress. He knows it is God alone who is the Lord of his conscience, where his depths lie; God alone against whom he hath sinned; God alone who can pardon his sin."
Owen's Commentary on Ps. 130. p. 38-39
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