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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.
1Now this taste, which we assign as the first duty, work, or acting of a returning soul, is a deep and practical apprehension wrought in the mind and heart of a believing sinner by the Holy Ghost, of sin and its evils, in reference unto the Law, and Love of God, the Cross, and blood of Christ, the communion and consolation of the Spirit, and all the fruits of Love, Mercy, or Grace, that it hath been made partaker of, or on Gospel grounds. hoped for.
1Now this tast, which we assign as the first duty, work, or acting of a returning soul, is a deep and practical apprehension wrought in the mind and heart of a believing sinner by the Holy Ghost, of sin and its evils, in reference unto the Law, and Love of God, the Cross, and blood of Christ, the communion and consolation of the Spirit, and all the fruits of Love, Mercy, or Grace, that it hath been made partaker of, or on Gospel grounds. hoped for.
- 1Nature and Causes of Gospel convictions of sin.
First, The principal efficient cause of it is the Holy Ghost. He it is who convinceth of sin, John 16. 8. He works indeed by means. He wrought it in David by the Ministry of Nathan; and he wrought it in Peter, by the look of Christ. But his work it is. No man can work it upon his own soul. It will not spring out of mens rational considerations. Though men may exercise their thoughts about such things, as one would think were enough to break the hearts of stones, yet if the Holy Ghost put not forth a peculiar efficacy of his own, this sense of sin will not be wrought or produced. As the waters at the Pool of Bethesda were not troubled, but when an Angel descended and moved them; no more will the Heart for sin, without a saving elapse of the Holy Ghost.