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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. That Grace in them, that is, the Good Will of God in Christ, for help, relief, satisfaction, pardon and salvation, is suited unto all particular conditions and wants of the soul. As Light ariseth from the Sun, and is diffused in the beams thereof to the especial use of all creatures, enabled by a visive faculty to make use of it; so cometh Grace forth from the Eternal Good Will of God in Christ, and is diffused by the promises, with a blessed contemporation unto the conditions and wants of all Believers. There can nothing fall out between God and any soul, but there is grace suited unto it in one promise or another, as clearly and ⟨p. 401⟩evidently, as if it were given unto him particularly and immediately. And this they find by experience who at any time are enabled to mix effectually a promise with faith.
2. The Word of promise hath a wonderful mysterious especial impression of God upon it. He doth by it secretly and ineffably communicate himself unto Believers. When God appeared in a dream unto Jacob, he awaked and said, God is in this place and I knew it not. He knew God was every where, but an intimation of his especial presence surprised him. So is a soul surprised when God opens himself and his Grace in a promise unto him. It cries out, God is here and I knew it not. Such a near approach of God in his Grace it finds, as is accompanied with a refreshing surprisal.
2. The Word of promise hath a wonderfull mysterious especial impression of God upon it. He doth by it secretly and ineffably communicate himself unto Believers. When God appeared in a dream unto Jacob, he awaked and said, God is in this place and I knew it not. He knew God was every where, but an intimation of his especial presence surprized him. So is a soul surprized when God opens himself and his Grace in a promise unto him. It cryes out, God is here and I knew it not. Such a near approach of God in his Grace it finds, as is accompanied with a refreshing surprizal.