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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 4 › 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. It is certain that the Law knows neither mercy nor forgiveness. The very sanction of it lies wholly against them: The soul that sinneth shall dye. Cursed is he that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them, Deut. 27. 26. Hence the Apostle pronounceth universally without exception, that they who are under the Law, are under the curse, Gal. 3. 10. And saith he, v. 12. The Law is not of faith. There is an inconsistency between the Law, and believing; they cannot have their abode in power together. Do this and live; fail and dye; is the constant immutable voice of the Law. This it speaks in general to all; and this in particular to every one.
1. It is certain that the Law knows neither mercy nor forgiveness. The very sanction of it lyes wholly against them: The soul that sinneth shall dye. Cursed is he that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them, Deut. 27. 26. Hence the Apostle pronounceth universally without exception, that they who are under the Law, are under the curse, Gal. 3. 10. And saith he, v. 12. The Law is not of faith. There is an inconsistency between the Law, and believing; they cannot have their abode in power together. Do this and live; fail and dye; is the constant immutable voyce of the Law. This it speaks in general to all; and this in particular to every one.
2. The sinner seems to have manifold and weighty Reasons to attend to the voice of this Law, and to acquiesce in its sentence. For,
2. The sinner seems to have manifold and weighty Reasons to attend to the voyce of this Law, and to acquiesce in its sentence. For,