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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.
III. God gave unto Man a Law of Obedience immediately upon his Creation. Yea, for the main of it, he implanted it in him by, and in his Creation. This Law it was supposed that man might transgress. The very nature of a Law prescribed unto free Agents, attended with Threatenings and Promises of Reward, requires that supposition. Now there was not annexed unto this Law, or revealed with it, the least intimation of pardon to be obtained, if Transgression should ensue. Gen. 2. 17. we have this Law, In the day thou eatest thou shalt surely dye: dying thou shalt dye; or bring upon thy self assuredly the guilt of death temporal and eternal. There God leaves the sinner under the power of that commination. Of forgiveness or pardoning mercy there is not the least intimation. To this very day, that Law, which was then the whole Rule of life and Acceptance with God knows no such thing. Dying thou shalt dye, O sinner, is the precise and final voice of it. From these previous considerations, added to what was formerly spoken, some things preparatory to the ensuing discourse may be inferred: as,
III. God gave unto Man a Law of Obedience immediately upon his Creation. Yea, for the main of it, he implanted it in him by, and in his Creation. This Law it was supposed that man might transgress. The very nature of a Law prescribed unto free Agents, attended with Threatnings and Promises of Reward, requires that supposition. Now there was not annexed unto this Law, or revealed with it, the least intimation of pardon to be obtained, if Transgression should ensue. Gen. 2. 17. we have this Law, In the day thou eatest thou shalt surely dye: dying thou shalt dye; or bring upon thy self assuredly the guilt of death temporal and eternal. There God leaves the sinner under the power of that commination. Of forgiveness or pardoning mercy there is not the least intimation. To this very day, that Law, which was then the whole Rule of life and Acceptance with God knows no such thing. Dying thou shalt dye, O sinner, is the precise and final voyce of it. From these previous considerations, added to what was formerly spoken, some things preparatory to the ensuing discourse may be inferred: as,