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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.
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,
1. The Law is connatural to him; his Domestic, his old acquaintance. It came into the world with him, and hath grown up with him from his Infancy. It was implanted in his heart by nature; is his own Reason; he can never shake it off, or part with it. It is his Familiar, his Friend, that cleaves ⟨p. 83⟩to him as the flesh to the bone; so that they who have not the Law written, cannot but she• forth the work of the Law, Rom. 2. 14. 15. and that because the Law it self is inbred to them; and all the faculties of the soul are at peace with it, in subjection to it. It is the bond. and ligament of their union harmony and correspondency among themselves, in all their moral actings. It gives life, order, motion to them all. Now the Gospel, that comes to control this sentence of the Law, and to relieve the sinner from it, is foreign to his nature, a strange thing to him, a thing he hath no acquaintance or familiarity with; it hath not been bred up with him; nor is there any thing in him, to side with it, to make a party for it, or to plead in its behalf. Now shall not a man rather believe a Domestic, a Friend, indeed himself; than a foreigner, a stranger, that comes with uncouth Principles, and such as suit not its Reason at all, 1 Cor. 1. 18.
1. The Law is connatural to him; his Domestick, his old acquaintance. It came into the world with him, and hath grown up with him from his Infancy. It was implanted in his heart by nature; is his own Reason; he can never shake it off, or part with it. It is his Familiar, his Friend, that cleaves