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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.
The true Nature of Gospel forgiveness. Its Relation to the Goodness, Grace, and Will of God. To the blood of Christ. To the Promise of the Gospel. The Considerations of Faith about it.
1The difficulties that lye in the way of faiths discovery of forgiveness, whence it appears to be a matter of greater weight and importance, than it is commonly apprehended to be, have been insisted on in the foregoing Discourse. There is yet remaining another ground of the same Truth. Now this is taken from the Nature and Greatness of the thing it self discovered, that is, of forgiveness. To this end I shall show, what it is, wherein it doth consist, what it comprises and relates unto, according to the importance of the second Proposition before laid down.
1The difficulties that lye in the way of faiths discovery of forgiveness, whence it appears to be a matter of greater weight and importance, than it is commonly apprehended to be, have been insisted on in the foregoing Discourse. There is yet remaining another ground of the same Truth. Now this is taken from the Nature and Greatness of the thing it self discovered, that is, of forgiveness. To this end I shall shew, what it is, wherein it doth consist, what it comprizes and relates unto, according to the importance of the second Proposition before laid down.
- 1The true Nature of Gospel forgiveness.
I do not in this place take forgiveness, strictly and precisely, for the act of pardoning; nor shall I dispute what that is, and wherein it doth consist. Consciences that come with sin entanglements unto God, know nothing of such disputes. Nor will this Expression, there is forgiveness with God, bear any such restriction, as that it should regard only actual condonation or pardon. That which I have to do, is to enquire into the nature of that pardon, which poor convinced troubled souls seek after; and which the Scripture proposeth to them, for their relief and rest. And I shall not handle this absolutely neither, but in Relation to the Truth under consideration; namely, that it is a great thing, to attain unto a true Gospel discovery of forgiveness.