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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 consideration of the Works of Gods creation will not help a man to this knowledge; that there is forgiveness with God. The Apostle tells us, Rom. 1. 20. what it is of God that ⟨p. 134⟩his works reveal; even his eternal power and Godhead; or the Essential Properties of his nature; but no more: Not any of the purposes of his Grace, not any of the free Acts of his Will; not pardon and forgiveness. Besides God made all things in such an estate and condition, namely, of Rectitude, Integrity, and Uprightness, Eccles. 7. 29. that it was impossible they should have any respect unto sin, which is the Corruption of all, or to the Pardon of it, which is their Restitution, whereof they stood in no need. There being no such thing in the world, as sin, nor any such thing supposed to be, when all things were made of nothing, how could any thing declare or reveal the forgiveness of it.
2. The consideration of the Works of Gods creation will not help a man to this knowledge; that there is forgiveness with God. The Apostle tells us, Rom. 1. 20. what it is of God that ⟨p. 134⟩his works reveal; even his eternal power and Godhead; or the Essential Properties of his nature; but no more: Not any of the purposes of his Grace, not any of the free Acts of his Will; not pardon and forgiveness. Besides God made all things in such an estate and condition, namely, of Rectitude, Integrity, and Uprightness, Eccles. 7. 29. that it was impossible they should have any respect unto sin, which is the Corruption of all, or to the Pardon of it, which is their Restituion, whereof they stood in no need. There being no such thing in the world, as sin, nor any such thing supposed to be, when all things were made of nothing, how could any thing declare or reveal the forgiveness of it.