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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. › Verse 3 › 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.
Secondly, But may not this Judge be entreated to pass by what he knows, and to deal favourably with the sinner? May not an Intercessor be obtained to plead in the behalf of the guilty soul? Eli determines this matter, 1 Sam. 2. 25. If one man sin ⟨p. 52⟩against another, the Judge shall judge him; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? There is not, saith Job between us [Greek or Hebrew] one that might argue the case, in pleading for me, and so make up the matter, laying his hand upon us both, Job 9. 33. We now consider a sinner purely under the Administration of the Law; which knows nothing of a Mediator. In that case who shall take upon him to intercede for the sinner? Besides, that all creatures in Heaven and Earth are engaged in the quarrel of God against sinners; and besides the greatness and terror of his Majesty, that will certainly debtor all or any of them from undertaking any such work; what is the request that in this case must be put up unto God? Is it not that he would cease to be Holy, leave off from being Righteous, relinquish his Throne, deny himself, and his Sovereignty, that a Rebel, a Traitor, his cursed enemy may live and escape his Justice: Is this request reasonable? Is he fit to intercede for sinners that shall make it? Would he not by so doing prove himself to be the greatest of them? The sinner cannot then expect any door of escape to be opened unto him? All the world is against him; and the case must be tried out nakedly between God and him: but,
Secondly, But may not this Judge be intreated to pass by what he knows, and to deal favourably with the sinner? May not an Intercessor be obtained to plead in the behalf of the guilty soul? Eli determines this matter, 1 Sam. 2. 25. If one man sin ⟨p. 52⟩against another, the Judge shall judge him; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? There is not, saith Job between us 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 one that might argue the case, in pleading for me, and so make up the matter, laying his hand upon us both,