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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.
3. No works of Gods Providence can make this discovery. God hath indeed born Testimony to himself and his Goodness in all Ages from the foundation of the world in the works of his Providence: So Acts 14. 15, 16, 17. We preach unto you, that you should turn from these vanities, unto the living God, which made Heaven, and Earth, and the Sea, and all things that are therein; who in times past, suffered all Nations to walk in their own ways: nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from Heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness: [Greek or Hebrew], He left not himself without witness; that is, by the works of his Providence there recounted, he thus far bare Testimony to himself, that he is, and is good, and doth good, and ruleth the world, so that they were utterly inexcusable who taking no notice of these works of his, nor the fruits of his goodness, which they lived upon, turned away after [Greek or Hebrew], vain things, as the Apostle there calls the Idols of the Gentiles. But yet these things did not discover pardon and forgiveness. For still God suffered them to go on in their own ways, and winked at their Ignorance. So again, Acts 17. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Whom you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you, God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is the Lord of Heaven and Earth, dwelleth not in Temples made with hands, neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he needeth any thing, seeing he giveth unto all life and breath, and all things, and hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the ⟨p. 135⟩Earth (where by the way there is an allusion to that of Gen. 11. 8. the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the Earth) and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if happily they might seek after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. By Arguments taken from the works of God both of Creation and Providence; the Apostle proves the Being and properties of God.
3. No works of Gods Providence can make this discovery. God hath indeed born Testimony to himself and his Goodness in all Ages from the foundation of the world in the works of his Providence: So