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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.
Now I have showed before, that he revealed pardon in the first promise, and therefore there ensued thereon the shedding of blood and Sacrifices; and thereby that Testament or Covenant was dedicated with blood also, ver. 18. Some think that the Beasts, of whose skins God made garments for Adam, were offered in Sacrifices. Nor is their conjecture vain. Yea, it seems not to want a shadow of a Gospel Mystery; that their nakedness which became their shame upon their sin, (whence the pollution and shame of sin is frequently so termed) should be covered with the skins of their Sacrifices. For in the true Sacrifice, there is somewhat answerable thereunto. And the Righteousness of him whose Sacrifice takes away the guilt of our sin, is called our clothing, that hides our pollution and shame.
Now I have shewed before, that he revealed pardon in the first promise, and therefore there ensued thereon the shedding of blood and Sacrifices; and thereby that Testament or Covenant was dedicated with blood also, ver. 18. Some think that the Beasts, of whose skins God made garments for Adam, were offered in Sacrifices. Nor is their conjecture vain. Yea, it seems not to want a shaddow of a Gospel Mysterie; that their nakedness which became their shame upon their sin, (whence the pollution and shame of sin is frequently so termed) should be covered with the skins of their Sacrifices. For in the true Sacrifice, there is somewhat answerable thereunto. And the Righteousness of him whose Sacrifice takes away the guilt of our sin, is called our cloathing, that hides our pollution and shame.
3. That after the giving of the Law, the greatest, most noble, and solemn part of the Worship of God consisted in Sacrifices. And this kind of Worship continued with the approbation of God in the world about four thousand years; that is, from the entrance of sin until the death of the Messiah, the true Sacrifice, which put an end unto all that was typical.