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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.
1Secondly, It is supposed, that there is, or may be a saving persuasion or discovery of forgiveness in God, Where there is no Assurance of any particular interest therein; or that our own sins in particular are pardoned. This is that which hath a Promise of gracious Acceptance with God, and is therefore saving, Isa. 50. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of his Servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light; Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon ⟨p. 116⟩his God. Here is the fear of the Lord and Obedience, with a blessed encouragement to rest in God, and his All-sufficiency, yet no Assurance, nor light, but darkness, and that walked in, or continued in for a long season. For he cannot walk in darkness, meet with nothing but darkness, without any beam or ray of Light, as the words signify, who is persuaded of the Love of God in the pardon of his sins. And yet the faith of such an one, and his Obedience springing from it, have this Gracious Promise of Acceptance with God. And innumerable testimonies to this purpose might be produced, and instances in great plenty. I shall only tender a little Evidence unto it, in one Observation concerning the nature of faith, and one more, about the proposal of the thing to be believed, or forgiveness. And,
1Secondly, It is supposed, that there is, or may be a saving perswasion or discovery of forgiveness in God, Where there is no Assurance of any particular interest therein; or that our own sins in particular are pardoned. This is that which hath a Promise of gracious Acceptance with God, and is therefore saving, Isa. 50. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voyce of his Servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light; Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon ⟨p. 116⟩his God. Here is the fear of the Lord and Obedience, with a blessed encouragement to rest in God, and his Alsufficiency, yet no Assurance, nor light, but darkness, and that walked in, or continued in for a long season. For he cannot walk in darkness, meet with nothing but darkness, without any beam or ray of Light, as the words signifie, who is perswaded of the Love of God in the pardon of his sins. And yet the faith of such an one, and his Obedience springing from it, have this Gracious Promise of Acceptance with God. And innumerable testimonies to this purpose might be produced, and instances in great plenty. I shall only tender a little Evidence unto it, in one Observation concerning the nature of faith, and one more, about the proposal of the thing to be believed, or forgiveness. And,