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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.
1II. Whereas there had been one signal Act of Gods Providence about sin, when man first fell into the snares of it: It was so far from the revealing forgiveness in God that it rather severely intimated the contrary. This was Gods dealing with sinning Angels. The Angels were the first sinners; and God dealt first with them about sin. And what was his dealing with them, the Holy Ghost tells us, 2 Pet. 2. 4. [Greek or Hebrew], he spared not the sinning Angels, he spared them not; It is the same word which he useth where he speaks of laying all our iniquities on Christ, he undergoing the punishment due unto them, Rom. 8. 32. [Greek or Hebrew], he spared him not; that is, he laid on him the full punishment that by the Curse and sanction of the Law was due unto sin. So he dealt with the Angels that sinned; he spared them not but inflicted on them the punishment due to sin, shutting them up under ⟨p. 136⟩chains of darkness for the Judgement of the great Day. Hitherto then God keeps all thoughts of forgiveness in his own Eternal Bosom. There is not so much as the least dawning of it upon the world. And this was at first no small prejudice against any thoughts of forgiveness. The world is made, sin enters by the most glorious part of the Creation, whose recovery by pardon might seem to be most desirable, but not the least appearance of it is discovered. Thus it was hid in God from the foundation of the world, Eph. 3. 9.
1II. Whereas there had been one signal Act of Gods Providence about sin, when man first fell into the snares of it: It was so far from the revealing forgiveness in God that it rather severely intimated the contrary. This was Gods dealing with sinning Angels. The Angels were the first sinners; and God dealt first with them about sin. And what was his dealing with them, the Holy Ghost tells us, 2 Pet. 2. 4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he spared not the sinning Angels, he spared them not; It is the same word which he useth where he speaks of laying all our iniquities on Christ, he undergoing the punishment due unto them,