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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.
2. Indeed God exerciseth no patience toward the Angels that sinned; and that because he had no forgiveness for them. So Peter tells us; 2 Epistle 2. 6. God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down into Hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness. Immediately upon their sin they were cast out of the presence of God whose vision and enjoyment they were made for, and which they received some experience of. And they were cast into Hell, as the place of their ordinary retention, and of their present anguish under the sense of Gods curse and displeasure. And although they may some of them be permitted to compass the earth, and to walk to and fro therein to serve the ends of Gods holy wise Providence, and so to be out of their prison; yet they are still in their chains: for they were delivered unto chains of darkness to be kept unto the last Judgement. And in these things they lye actually under the execution of the curse of God: So that there is indeed no patience exercised towards them. If a notorious Malefactor, or Murderer be committed unto a Dungeon, and kept bound with Iron chains to prevent his escape, until the appointed day of his solemn Judgement and Execution, without the least intention to spare him; None will say, there is patience exercised towards him; Things being disposed only so, as that his punishment may be secure and severe. And such is the case, such is the condition of the Angels that sinned, who are not therefore to be esteemed objects of Gods patience.
2. Indeed God exerciseth no patience toward the Angels that sinned; and that because he had no forgiveness for them. So Peter tells us; 2 Epistle 2. 6. God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down into Hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness. Immediately upon their sin they were cast out of the presence of God whose vision and enjoyment they were made for, and which they received some experience of. And they were cast into Hell, as the place of their ordinary retention, and of their present anguish under the sense of Gods curse and displeasure. And although they may some of them be permitted to compass the earth, and to walk to and fro therein to serve the ends of Gods holy wise Providence, and so to be out of their prison; yet they are still in their chains: for they were delivered unto chains of darkness to be kept unto the last Judgement. And in these things they lye actually under the execution of the curse of God: So that there is indeed no patience exercised towards them. If a notorious Malefactor, or Murtherer be committed unto a Dungeon, and kept bound with Iron chains to prevent his escape, untill the appointed day of his solemn Judgement and Execution, without the least intention to spare him; None will say, there is patience exercised towards him; Things being disposed only so, as that his punishment may be secure and severe. And such is the case, such is the condition of the Angels that sinned, who are not therefore to be esteemed objects of Gods patience.