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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.
Secondly, There is the bringing home, and Application of all this mercy to the soul of a sinner by the Holy Ghost; wherein, we are freely forgiven all our Trespasses, Col. 2. 13.
1Gospel Forgiveness I say, respects all these things, these Principles, they have all an influence into it. And that which makes this more evident, wherewith I shall close this consideration of the nature of it, is, that Faith in its Application of it self unto God about and for Forgiveness, doth distinctly apply it self unto, and close with, sometimes one of these severally and singly, sometimes another; and sometimes jointly takes in the consideration of them all expressly. Not that at any time it fixes on any or either of them exclusively to the others; but that eminently it finds some special encouragement at some season, and some peculiar attractive from some one of them, more than from the rest; and then that proves an inlet, a door of entrance unto the treasures that are laid up in the rest of them. Let us go over the severals by Instances.
1Gospel Forgiveness I say, respects all these things, these Principles, they have all an influence into it. And that which makes this more evident, wherewith I shall close this consideration of the nature of it, is, that Faith in its Application of it self unto God about and for Forgiveness, doth distinctly apply it self unto, and close with, sometimes one of these severally and singly, sometimes another; and sometimes jointly takes in the consideration of them all expresly. Not that at any time it fixes on any or either of them exclusively to the others; but that eminently it finds some special encouragement at some season, and some peculiar attractive from some one of them, more than from the rest; and then that proves an inlet, a door of entrance unto the treasures that are laid up in the rest of them. Let us go over the severalls by Instances.
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