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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.
You may see them go away shaking their heads, and striking on their breasts, and before they come home, be as whole as ever: Well! God is merciful, there is pardon, hath wrought the cure. The other sort, have obtained their persuasion, as a result of the discovery of Christ in the Gospel, upon a full conviction. Trials they have had, and this is the issue.
You may see them go away shaking their heads, and striking on their breasts, and before they come home, be as whole as ever: Well! God is merciful, there is pardon, hath wrought the cure. The other sort, have obtained their perswasion, as a result of the discovery of Christ in the Gospel, upon a full conviction. Tryals they have had, and this is the issue.
Thirdly, The one (which we reject) worketh no Love to God, no Delight in him, no Reverence of him, but rather a contempt, and commonness of Spirit in dealing with him. There are none in the world that deal worse with God, than those who have an ungrounded persuasion of forgiveness. And if they do fear him, or love him, or obey him in any thing, more or less, it is on other motives and considerations, which will not render any thing they do acceptable, and not at all on this. As he is good to the Creation they may love, as he is great and powerful they may fear him; but sense of pardon, as to any such ends or purposes, hath no power upon them. Carnal boldness, formality, and despising of God, are the common issues of such a notion and persuasion. Indeed this is the generation of great sinners in the world; men who have a general apprehension, but not a sense of the special power of pardon, openly, or secretly, in fleshly or spiritual sins, are the great sinners among men. Where faith makes a discovery of forgiveness, all things are otherwise. Great Love, Fear, and Reverence of God, are its attendants. Mary Magdalen loved much, because much was forgiven. Great Love will spring out of great forgiveness. There is forgiveness with thee, saith the Psalmist, that thou mayest be feared. No unbeliever, doth truly and experimentally know the truth of this inference. But so it is when men fear the Lord, and his Goodness, Hos. 3. 5. 1