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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.
I answer, That this must be more fully spoken unto when we come to remove that great Objection against this whole Truth which was mentioned before, taken from Gods dealing with the sinning Angels, whom he spared not; at present two or three Observations will remove it out of our way. For,
1. That the case is not the same with the sinning Angels, and the race of mankind in all Generations. There are no other Angels in this condition, but only those individuals who first sinned in their own persons. They are not in the Providence and Patience of God, multiplied and increased in ensuing times and seasons; but they continue the same individual persons who first sinned and no more. So that immediate execution of the whole punishment due unto their sin, would not have prevented any increase of them. But now with man it is otherwise. For God continues his patience towards them to the production of millions of other persons who were not actually in the first sin. Had not God so continued his forbearance, their ⟨p. 161⟩Being and consequently their sin and misery had been prevented; so that the case is not the same with sinning Angels and Men.
1. That the case is not the same with the sinning Angels, and the race of mankind in all Generations. There are no other Angels in this condition, but only those individuals who first sinned in their own persons. They are not in the Providence and Patience of God, multiplyed and encreased in ensuing times and seasons; but they continue the same individual persons who first sinned and no more. So that immediate execution of the whole punishment due unto their sin, would not have prevented any encrease of them. But now with man it is otherwise. For God continues his patience towards them to the production of millions of other persons who were not actually in the first sin. Had not God so continued his forbearance, their ⟨p. 161⟩Being and consequently their sin and misery had been prevented; so that the case is not the same with sinning Angels and Men.