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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.
1The first Discovery of forgiveness in God, (and which I place as the first Evidence of it) was made in his first dealing with our Parents after their shameful sin and fall. Now to make it appear, that this is an evidence that carries along a great conviction with it, and is such as faith may securely rest upon and close withal, the ensuing Observations are to be considered.
1The first Discovery of forgiveness in God, (and which I place as the first Evidence of it) was made in his first dealing with our Parents after their shameful sin and fall. Now to make it appear, that this is an evidence that carryes along a great conviction with it, and is such as faith may securely rest upon and close withall, the ensuing Observations are to be considered.
- 1Forgiveness discovered in the first Promise.
The first sin in the world, was on many accounts the greatest sin that ever was in the world. It was the sin as it were of Humane Nature, wherein there was a conspiracy of all Individuals; omnes eramus unus ille homo; in that one man, or that one sin, we all sinned, Rom. 5. 12. It left not God one subject as to moral obedience on the earth, nor the least ground for any such to be unto Eternity. When the Angels sinned the whole race or kind did not prevaricate. Thousand thousands of them, and ten thousand times ten thousands continued in their obedience, Dan. 7. 10. But here, all and every individual of mankind (he only excepted which was not then in Adam) were embarked in the same crime and guilt. Besides it disturbed the Government of God in and over the whole Creation. God had made all things in number, weight, and measure, in order and beauty: pronouncing himself concerning his whole work that it was [Greek or Hebrew] exceeding beautiful and good,