A53721:437
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.
Further Evidences of Forgiveness with God. Testimonies that God was well pleased with some that were sinners. The Patience of God towards the world; an evidence of Forgiveness. Experience of the Saints of God to the same purpose.
1IV. Let us then in the fourth place, as a fourth Evidence of this truth, consider those, both under the Old Testament and the New, concerning whom we have the greatest Assurance that God was well pleased with them, and that they are now in the enjoyment of him. And this Argument unto this purpose the Apostle insists upon, and presseth from sundry instances, Heb. 11. How many doth he there reckon up who of old obtained a good report, and this Testimony, that they pleased God: ver. 2. 5. All these inherited the Promises through believing; that is, obtained the forgiveness of sin. For whereas by nature they were children of wrath, and under the Curse as well as others, obtaining an infallible interest in the favour of God, and this Testimony, that they pleased him, it could no otherwise be. For without this, on a just account, every one of them would have continued in the state wherein Adam was, when he heard the voice of God and was afraid. Wherefore it being evident that some persons in all Generations, have enjoyed the friendship, love and favour of God in this world, and at their departure out of it have entered into Glory; it makes it evident that there is forgiveness of sin with him, without which these things could not be.
1IV. Let us then in the fourth place, as a fourth Evidence of this truth, consider those, both under the Old Testament and the New, concerning whom we have the greatest Assurance that God was well pleased with them, and that they are now in the enjoyment of him. And this Argument unto this purpose the Apostle insists upon, and presseth from sundry instances, Heb. 11. How many doth he there reckon up who of old obtained a good report, and this Testimony, that they pleased God: ver. 2. 5. All these inherited the Promises through believing; that is, obtained the forgiveness of sin. For whereas by nature they were children of wrath, and under the Curse as well as others, obtaining an infallible interest in the favour of God, and this Testimony, that they pleased him, it could no otherwise be. For without this, on a just account, every one of them would have continued in the state wherein Adam was, when he heard the voyce of God and was afraid. Wherefore it being evident that some persons in all Generations, have enjoyed the friendship, love and favour of God in this world, and at their departure out of it have entred into Glory; it makes it evident that there is forgiveness of sin with him, without which these things could not be.