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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. These Essential properties of the nature of God are revealed by his WORKS. So the Apostle in the same place, ver. 20. The invisible things of God from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and Godhead: See also, Psalm 19. 1, 2, 3. And this is the first sort of things that may be known of God.
12. There are the free Acts of his Will and Power; or his free eternal purposes, with the temporal dispensations that flow from them. Now of this sort, is the forgiveness that we are enquiring after; It is not a property of the Nature of God, but an Act of his Will, and a Work of his Grace. Although it hath its rise and spring in the infinite Goodness of his Nature, yet it proceeds from him, and is not exercised but by an absolute free and Sovereign Act of his Will. Now there is nothing of God, or with him, of this sort that can be any ways known, but only by especial Revelation: For,
12. There are the free Acts of his Will and Power; or his free eternal purposes, with the temporal dispensations that flow from them. Now of this sort, is the forgiveness that we are enquiring after; It is not a property of the Nature of God, but an Act of his Will, and a Work of his Grace. Although it hath its rise and spring in the infinite Goodness of his Nature, yet it proceeds from him, and is not exercised but by an absolute free and Soveraign Act of his Will. Now there is nothing of God, or with him, of this sort that can be any wayes known, but only by especial Revelation: For,
- 1Free Acts of Gods Will, how they may be known.