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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.
To have all the clouds and darkness that are raised by sin, between us and the Throne of God, dispelled; to have the fire and storms, and tempests that are kindled and stirred up about him by the Law removed; to have his glorious face unveiled, and his holy heart laid open, and a view given of those infinite treasures and stores of Goodness, Mercy, Love and Kindness, which have had an unchangeable habitation therein from all Eternity; to have a discovery of these eternal springs of forbearance and forgiveness, is that which none but Christ can accomplish and bring about, John 17. 6.
To have all the clouds and darkness that are raised by sin, between us and the Throne of God, dispelled; to have the fire and storms, and tempests that are kindled and stirred up about him by the Law removed; to have his glorious face unvailed, and his holy heart laid open, and a view given of those infinite treasures and stores of Goodness, Mercy, Love and Kindness, which have had an unchangeable habitation therein from all Eternity; to have a discovery of these eternal springs of sorbearance and forgiveness, is that which none but Christ can accomplish and bring about, John 17. 6.
1Secondly, This is not all. This eternal Ocean that is infinitely satisfied with its own fullness and perfection, doth not naturally yield forth streams for our refreshment. Mercy and pardon do not come forth from God, as Light doth from the Sun, or Water from the Sea, by a necessary consequence of their natures, whether they will or no. It doth not necessarily follow that any one must be made partaker of forgiveness, because ⟨p. 99⟩God is infinitely Gracious. For may he not do what he will with his own? Who hath given first unto him that it should be recompensed unto him again?