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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 7, 8
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. There are two great Concernments of this Grace, the one expressed, the other implied in the words. The first is, that it is much, plenteous, abundant. That which principally discourageth distressed souls from a comfortable waiting on God, is, their fears lest they should not obtain mercy from him, and that because their sins are so great, and so many; or attended with such circumstances and aggravations, as that it is impossible they should find acceptance with God. This ground of despondency and unbelief, the Psalmist obviates, by representing the fullness, the plenty, the boundless plenty of the mercy that is with God. It is such as will suit the condition of the greatest sinners in their greatest depths; the stores of its treasures are inexhaustible. And the force of the exhortation doth not lie so much in this, that there is Redemption with God, as that this Redemption is plenteous or abundant.
2. There are two great Concernments of this Grace, the one expressed, the other implied in the words. The first is, that it is much, plenteous, abundant. That which principally discourageth distressed souls from a comfortable waiting on God, is, their fears lest they should not obtain mercy from him, and that because their sins are so great, and so many; or attended with such circumstances and aggravations, as that it is impossible they should find acceptance with God. This ground of despondency and unbelief, the Psalmist obviates, by representing the fulness, the plenty, the boundless plenty of the mercy that is with God. It is such as will suit the condition of the greatest sinners in their greatest depths; the stores of its treasures are inexhaustible. And the force of the exhortation doth not lie so much in this, that there is Redemption with God, as that this Redemption is plenteous or abundant.
Secondly, Here is an intimation in the Word it self of that Relation which the Goodness and Grace of God proposed hath to the blood of Christ; whence it is called Redemption. This, as was showed in the opening of the words, hath respect unto a price, the price whereby we are bought, that is the blood of Christ. This is that whereby way is made for the exercise of mercy towards sinners; Redemption, which properly denotes actual deliverance, is said to be with God, or in him, as the effect in the cause. The causes of it are his own Grace, and the blood of Christ. There are these prepared for the redeeming of Believers from