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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.
Evidences of Forgiveness in God. No inbred Notions of any free Acts of Gods Will. Forgiveness not revealed by the Works of Nature, nor the Law.
11. The things that are spoken, or are to be known of God are of two sorts: (1.) Natural and Necessary; such as are his Essential properties, or the Attributes of his nature, his Goodness, Holiness, Righteousness, Omnipotency, Eternity, and the like. These are called, [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 1. 19. That which may be known of God. And there are two ways, as the Apostle there declares, whereby that which he there intimates of God may be known, (1.) By the inbred light of Nature; [Greek or Hebrew], v. 19. It is manifest in themselves; in their own hearts; They are taught it by the common conceptions and presumptions which they have of God by the light of nature. From hence do all mankind know concerning God, that He is, that he is Eternal, infinitely Powerful, Good, Righteous, Holy, Omnipotent. There needs no special Revelation of these things that men may know them. That indeed they may be known savingly there is; and therefore they that know these things by nature, do also believe them on Revelation, Heb. 11. 6. He that cometh unto God must BELIEVE that he is, and that he is a rewarder. Though men KNOW God by the light of nature, yet they cannot COME to God by that knowledge.
11. The things that are spoken, or are to be known of God are of two sorts: (1.) Natural and Necessary; such as are his Essential properties, or the Attributes of his nature, his Goodness, Holiness, Righteousness, Omnipotency, Eternity, and the like. These are called, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rom. 1. 19. That which may be known of God. And there are two wayes, as the Apostle there declares, whereby that which he there intimates of God may be known, (1.) By the inbred light of Nature; , v. 19. It is manifest in themselves; in their own hearts; They are taught it by the common conceptions and presumptions which they have of God by the light of nature. From hence do all mankind know concerning God, that He is, that he is Eternal, infinitely Powerful, Good, Righteous, Holy, Omnipotent. There needs no special Revelation of these things that men may know them. That indeed they may be known savingly there is; and therefore they that know these things by nature, do also believe them on Revelation,