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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.
And this is another way whereby God hath revealed that there is forgiveness with him: and an infallible bottom for saith to build upon in its approaches unto God it is. Nor can the certainty of this Evidence be called into question, but on such grounds as are derogatory to the Glory and Honour of God. And this connection of Repentance and forgiveness is that principle ⟨p. 149⟩from whence God convinces a stubborn unbelieving people, that all his ways and dealings with sinners are just and equal, Ezek. 18. 25. And should there be any failure in it they could not be so. Every soul then that is under a call to Repentance, whether out of his natural condition, or from any back-sliding into folly after Conversion, hath a sufficient foundation to rest on, as to the pardon he enquires after. God is ready to deal with him on terms of mercy; if out of love to sin, or the power of unbelief, he refuse to close with him on these terms, his condemnation is just. And it will be well that this consideration be well imprinted on the minds of men. I say notwithstanding the general presumptions that men seem to have of this matter; yet these principles of it ought to be inculcated. For,
And this is another way whereby God hath revealed that there is forgiveness with him: and an infallible bottom for saith to build upon in its approaches unto God it is. Nor can the certainty of this Evidence be called into question, but on such grounds as are derogatory to the Glory and Honour of God. And this connexion of Repentance and forgiveness is that principle ⟨p. 149⟩from whence God convinces a stubborn unbelieving people, that all his wayes and dealings with sinners are just and equal, Ezek. 18. 25. And should there be any failure in it they could not be so. Every soul then that is under a call to Repentance, whether out of his natural condition, or from any back-sliding into folly after Conversion, hath a sufficient foundation to rest on, as to the pardon he enquires after. God is ready to deal with him on terms of mercy; if out of love to sin, or the power of unbelief, he refuse to close with him on these terms, his condemnation is just. And it will be well that this consideration be well imprinted on the minds of men. I say notwithstanding the general presumptions that men seem to have of this matter; yet these principles of it ought to be inculcated. For,