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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.
2. The Revelation and discovery of forgiveness that is made in the Gospel, evidenceth the same truth. The first proposal of it, or concerning it, is not to any man, that his sins are ⟨p. 117⟩forgiven. No but it is only that there is Redemption and forgiveness of sins in Christ. So the Apostle lays it down, Acts 13. 38, 39. Be it known unto you therefore Men and Brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things; from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses. All this may be believed, without a mans Assurance of his own personal interest in the things mentioned. Now where they are believed with the faith the Gospel requires, that faith is saving, and the root of Gospel acceptable Obedience. The Ransom, I say, the Atonement by Christ, the fullness of the Redemption that is in him, and so Forgiveness in his blood for Believers, from the Good Will, Grace, and Love of the Father, is the first Gospel discovery that a sinner in a saving manner closeth withal. Particular Assurance ariseth, or may arise afterwards, and this also is supposed in the Assertion.
2. The Revelation and discovery of forgiveness that is made in the Gospel, evidenceth the same truth. The first proposal of it, or concerning it, is not to any man, that his sins are ⟨p. 117⟩forgiven. No but it is only that there is Redemption and forgiveness of sins in Christ. So the Apostle layes it down, Acts 13. 38, 39. Be it known unto you therefore Men and Brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things; from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses. All this may be believed, without a mans Assurance of his own personal interest in the things mentioned. Now where they are believed with the faith the Gospel requires, that faith is saving, and the root of Gospel acceptable Obedience. The Ransome, I say, the Attonement by Christ, the fulness of the Redemption that is in him, and so Forgiveness in his blood for Believers, from the Good Will, Grace, and Love of the Father, is the first Gospel discovery that a sinner in a saving manner closeth withal. Particular Assurance ariseth, or may arise afterwards, and this also is supposed in the Assertion.