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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.
False Presumptions of Forgiveness discovered. Differences between them, and Faith Evangelical.
1Before I proceed to produce and manage the remaining Evidences of this Truth, because what hath been spoken, lies obnoxious and open to an Objection which must needs rise in the minds of many, that it may not thereby be rendered useless unto them, I shall remove it out of the way, that we may pass on to what remains.
1Before I proceed to produce and manage the remaining Evidences of this Truth, because what hath been spoken, lyes obnoxious and open to an Objection which must needs rise in the minds of many, that it may not thereby be rendered useless unto them, I shall remove it out of the way, that we may pass on to what remains.
- 1False Presumptions of Forgiveness.
It will then be said, doth not all this lye directly contrary to our daily experience? Do we not find all men full enough, most too full of Apprehensions of Forgiveness with God? What so common as God is merciful? Are not the Consciences, and Convictions of the most stifled, by this Apprehension? Can you find a man that is otherwise minded? Is it not a common complaint that men presume on it, unto their eternal ruin? Certainly then, that which all men do, which every man can so easily do, and which you cannot keep men off from doing, though it be to their hurt, hath no such difficulty in it as is pretended. And on this very account hath this weak endeavour to demonstrate this Truth been by some laughed to scorn; men who have taken upon them the teaching of others, but (as it seems) had need be taught themselves, the very first Principles of the Oracles of God.