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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.
To conclude then this Evidence. Every one who is now in Heaven hath his pardon sealed in the blood of Christ. All these pardons are as it were hanged up in the Gospel; they are all enrolled in the Promises thereof, for the encouragement of them that stand in need of forgiveness to come and sue out theirs also. Fear not then the Guilt of sin, but the Love of it, and the power of it. If we love and like sin better than forgiveness, we shall assuredly go without it. If we had but rather be pardoned in Gods way, than perish, our condition is secure.
1V. The same is evident from the Patience of God towards the world, and the end of it. For the clearing hereof we may observe.
- 1Patience of God towards the World, an evidence of forgiveness.
1. That upon the first entrance of sin and breach of that Covenant which God had made with mankind in Adam, he might immediately have executed the Threatened Curse, and have brought eternal death upon them that sinned. Justice ⟨p. 158⟩required that it should be so, and there was nothing in the whole creation to interpose so much as for a reprieve or a respite of vengeance. And had God then sent sinning man with the Apostate Angels that induced him into sin, immediately into eternal destruction, he would have been glorified in his Righteousness and Severity, by and among the Angels that sinned not; or he could have created a new race of innocent creatures to have worshipped him and glorified him for his Righteous Judgement; even as all the Elect at the last day, shall do for the destruction of ungodly men.