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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.
1For a close of this Discourse, I shall only add, what is included in that Proposition which is the foundation of the whole; namely, that this discovery of forgiveness is, and can be made to faith alone. The nature of it is such, as that nothing else can discover it or receive it. No Reasonings, no enquiries of the heart of man can reach unto it. That guess or glimpse which the Heathens had of old of somewhat so called, and which false Worshippers have at present, is not the forgiveness we insist upon, but a mere imagination of their own hearts.
1For a close of this Discourse, I shall only add, what is included in that Proposition which is the foundation of the whole; namely, that this discovery of forgiveness is, and can be made to faith alone. The nature of it is such, as that nothing else can discover it or receive it. No Reasonings, no enquiries of the heart of man can reach unto it. That guess or glimpse which the Heathens had of old of somewhat so called, and which false Worshippers have at present, is not the forgiveness we insist upon, but a meer imagination of their own hearts.
- 1Forgiveness discovered to Faith alone.
This the Apostle informs us, Rom. 1. 17. The Righteousness of God, is (in the Gospel) revealed from faith to faith. Nothing but faith hath any thing to do with it. It is that Righteousness of God whereof he speaks, that consists in the forgiveness of sins by the blood of Christ, declared in the Gospel. And this is revealed from the faith of God in the Promise, to the faith of the Believer; to him that mixes the Promise with faith. And again more fully, 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. The ways whereby we may come to the knowledge of any thing, are by the seeing of the eye, or the hearing of the ear, or the Reasonings and meditations of the heart; but now none of these will reach to the matter in hand; by none of these ways can we come to an acquaintance