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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. The Infinite Goodness and Graciousness of his Nature. 2. The Sovereign purpose of his Will and Grace.
1. The Infinite Goodness and Graciousness of his Nature. 2. The Soveraign purpose of his Will and Grace.
There is considerable in it, the infinite Goodness of his nature. Sin stands in a contrariety unto God. It is a Rebellion against his Sovereignty, an Opposition to his Holiness, a Provocation to his Justice, a Rejection of his yoke, a casting off, what lies in the sinner, of that dependence which a Creature hath on its Creator. That God then should have pity and compassion on sinners, in every one of whose sins, there is all this evil, and inconceivably more than we can comprehend, it argues an infinitely Gracious, Good, and loving heart and nature in him. For God doth nothing, but suitably to the Properties of his Nature, and from them. All the Acts. of his Will, are the Effects of his Nature.
There is considerable in it, the infinite Goodness of his nature. Sin stands in a contrariety unto God. It is a Rebellion against his Soveraignty, an Opposition to his Holiness, a Provocation to his Justice, a Rejection of his yoke, a casting off, what lyes in the sinner, of that dependance which a Creature hath on its Creator. That God then should have pity and compassion on sinners, in every one of whose sins, there is all this evil, and inconceivably more than we can comprehend, it argues an infinitely Gracious, Good, and loving heart and nature in him. For God doth nothing, but suitably to the Properties of his Nature, and from them. All the Acts. of his Will, are the Effects of his Nature.
Now what ever God proposeth as an encouragement for sinners to come to him, that is of, or hath a special influence into the Forgiveness that is with him. For nothing can encourage a sinner as such, but under this consideration, that it is, or it respects forgiveness. That this Graciousness of Gods nature, lies at the head or spring, and is the root from whence forgiveness doth grow, is manifest from that solemn Proclamation which he made of old of his name, and the Revelation of his nature therein, (for God assuredly is; what by himself he is called,)