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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.
The condition was the same with Isaac and Jacob. They also are Heaven, being alive unto, and with God. Our Saviour proves it from the tenor of the Covenant, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead but of the living, Matth. 22. 32. They are yet alive, alive unto God, and with him, by virtue of the Covenant; or after their death, God would not be said, to be their God. This is the force of our Saviours Argument in that place; that after their death, God was still their God. Then death had not reached their whole persons. They were still alive with God in Heaven; and their bodies by virtue of the same Covenant, were to be recovered out of the dust.
The condition was the same with Isaac and Jacob. They also are Heaven, being alive unto, and with God. Our Saviour proves it from the tenour of the Covenant, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead but of the living, Matth. 22. 32. They are yet alive, alive unto God, and with him, by vertue of the Covenant; or after their death, God would not be said, to be their God. This is the force of our Saviours Argument in that place; that after their death, God was still their God. Then death had not reached their whole persons. They were still alive with God in Heaven; and their bodies by vertue of the same Covenant, were to be recovered out of the dust.
The same is the state with David. He was a man after Gods own heart, that did all his Will, and fulfilled all his pleasure. And although he dyed and his body saw corruption, yet he is not lost, he is with God in Heaven. Hence he ended his days triumphantly in a full apprehension of Eternal Rest, beyond what could in this world be attained, and that by virtue of the Covenant. For these are the last words of David, Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ascertaining unto him sure and eternal mercies,