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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. God revealed this Sacred Truth by his Institution of Sacrifices. Sacrifices by blood, do all of them respect Atonement, Expiation, and consequentially forgiveness. It is true indeed, they could not themselves take away sin, nor make them perfect who came unto God by them, Heb. 10. 1. but yet they undeniably evince the taking away of sin, or the forgiveness of it, by what they did denote and typify. I shall therefore look a little back into their Rise and Intendment.
1II. God revealed this Sacred Truth by his Institution of Sacrifices. Sacrifices by blood, do all of them respect Attonement, Expiation, and consequentially forgiveness. It is true indeed, they could not themselves take away sin, nor make them perfect who came unto God by them, Heb. 10. 1. but yet they undeniably evince the taking away of sin, or the forgiveness of it, by what they did denote and typisie. I shall therefore look a little back into their Rise and Intendment.
- 1Sacrifices an Evidence of Forgiveness.
1. The Original and first spring of Sacrifices is not in the Scripture expressly mentioned, only the practice of the Saints is recorded. But it is certain from infallible Scripture Evidences, that they were of Gods immediate Institution and Appointment. God never allowed that the Will or Wisdom of man, should be the spring and Rule of his Worship. That solemn word where with he Fronts the command that is the Rule of his Worship, [Greek or Hebrew] Thou shalt not make to thy self, which is the life of the command, (that which follows being an explanation ⟨p. 142⟩