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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.
1. It takes away all those Hinderances that were formerly insisted on, from the Greatness, Holiness and severity of God, ⟨p. 122⟩the inexorableness and strictness of the Law, and the natural actings of conscience, rising up against all hopes of forgiveness. All these are by this faith removed, and taken out of the way. Where this faith is, it discovers not only forgiveness, as hath been showed, but also the true nature of Gospel forgiveness. It reveals it as flowing from the Gracious Heart of the Father, through the blood of the Son. Now this Propitiation in the blood of the Son, removeth all these difficulties, even antecedently unto our special sense of an interest therein. It shows how all the properties of God may be exalted, and the Law fulfilled, and yet forgiveness given out to sinners. And herein lies no small advantage unto a soul in its approaches unto God. All those dreadful Apprehensions of God, which were wont to beset him in the first thoughts of coming to him, are now taken out of the way; so that he can quietly apply himself unto his own particular concernments before him.
1. It takes away all those Hinderances that were formerly insisted on, from the Greatness, Holiness and severity of God, ⟨p. 122⟩the inexorableness and strictness of the Law, and the natural actings of conscience, rising up against all hopes of forgiveness. All these are by this faith removed, and taken out of the way. Where this faith is, it discovers not only forgiveness, as hath been shewed, but also the true nature of Gospel forgiveness. It reveals it as flowing from the Gracious Heart of the Father, through the blood of the Son. Now this Propitiation in the blood of the Son, removeth all these difficulties, even antecedently unto our special sense of an interest therein. It shews how all the properties of God may be exalted, and the Law fulfilled, and yet forgiveness given out to sinners. And herein lyes no small advantage unto a soul in its approaches unto God. All those dreadful Apprehensions of God, which were wont to beset him in the first thoughts of coming to him, are now taken out of the way; so that he can quietly apply himself unto his own particular concernments before him.