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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.
4. Much less cause is there to doubt of forgiveness, where sincere Repentance is in any measure wrought. No soul comes to Repentance but upon Gods call. God calls none but whom he hath mercy for upon their coming. And as for those who sin against the Holy Ghost, as they shut themselves out from forgiveness, so they are not called to Repentance.
5. God expressly declares in the Scripture, that the forgiveness that is with him, is the foundation of his prescribing repentance unto man. One instance may suffice, Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way ([Greek or Hebrew] a perverse wicked one; [Greek or Hebrew]) and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy, and to our God, for [Greek or Hebrew] he will multiply to pardon. You see to whom he speaks; to men perversely wicked, and such as make a trade of sinning. What doth he call them unto? plainly to Repentance, to the duty we have insisted on. But what is the ground of such an invitation, unto such profligate sinners? Why, the abundant forgiveness and pardon that is with him, super-abounding unto what the worst of them can stand in need of: as Rom. 5. 20.
5. God expresly declares in the Scripture, that the forgiveness that is with him, is the foundation of his prescribing repentance unto man. One instance may suffice, Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way (〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a perverse wicked one; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉) and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy, and to our God, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he will multiply to pardon. You see to whom he speaks; to men perversely wicked, and such as make a trade of sinning. What doth he call them unto? plainly to Repentance, to the duty we have insisted on. But what is the ground of such an invitation, unto such profligate sinners? Why, the abundant forgiveness and pardon that is with him, super-abounding unto what the worst of them can stand in need of: as