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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.
2. Neither is the time of their Institution mentioned. Some of the Papists dispute (as there are a generation of philosophi••• disputers amongst them, by whom their tottering cause is supported) that there should have been Sacrifices in Paradise, if man had not sinned. But as in all their opinions, our first enquiry ought to be, what do they get by this or that, their whole Religion being pointed unto their carnal interest; so we may in particular do it, upon this uncouth Assertion, which is perfectly contradictious to the very Nature and End of most Sacrifices; namely, that they should be offered where there is no sin. Why, they hope to establish hence a general rule, that there can be no true Worship of God in any state or condition without a Sacrifice. What then I pray? Why then it is evident that the continual Sacrifice of the Mass is necessary in the Church, and that without it there is no true Worship of God; and so they are quickly come home to their advantage and profit; the Mass being that inexhaustible Spring of Revenue which feeds their pride and lust throughout the world. But there is in the Church of Christ an Altar still, and a Sacrifice still, which they have rejected for the a bominable figment of their Mass; namely, Christ himself as the Apostle informs us, Heb. 13. 10. But as the Sacrifices of Beasts could not have been before the entrance of sin, so it may be evidenced that they were instituted from the foundation of the world, that is presently after the entrance of sin. Christ is called the Lamb of God, John 1. 29. which he was in reference unto the Sacrifices of old, as 1 Pet. 2. 18, 19. whence he is represented in the Church, as a Lamb slain, Rev. 5. 6. or giving out the efficacy of all Sacrifices to his Church. Now he is said to be a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13. 8. which could not be, unless some Sacrifice prefiguring his being slain had been then offered. For it denotes not only the efficacy of his Mediation, but the way. Besides ⟨p. 143⟩