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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.
1. That there is a great Answerableness, and Correspondency between the heart of a Believer, and the truth that he doth believe. As the Word is in the Gospel, so is Grace in the heart; yea, they are the same thing variously expressed, Rom. 6. 17. You have obeyed from the heart, [Greek or Hebrew], the form of Doctrine delivered unto you. As our Translation doth not, so I know not how in so few words to express that which is emphatically here insinuated by the Holy Ghost. The meaning is, that the Doctrine of the Gospel begets the form, figure, image, or likeness of it self in the hearts of them that believe: So they are cast into the mould of it. As is the one, so is the other. The principle of Grace in the heart, and that in the Word, are as children of the same Parent, completely resembling and representing one another. Grace is a living Word, and the Word is figured, limned Grace: As is Regeneration, so is a Regenerate heart: As is the Doctrine of faith, so is a Believer. And this gives great Evidence unto, and Assurance of the things that are believed. As we have heard, so we have seen and found it; such a soul can produce the duplicate of the Word, and so adjust all things thereby.
1. That there is a great Answerableness, and Correspondency between the heart of a Believer, and the truth that he doth believe. As the Word is in the Gospel, so is Grace in the heart; yea, they are the same thing variously expressed, Rom. 6. 17. You have obeyed from the heart, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the form of Doctrine delivered unto you. As our Translation doth not, so I know not how in so few words to express that which is emphatically here insinuated by the Holy Ghost. The meaning is, that the Doctrine of the Gospel begets the form, figure, image, or likeness of it self in the hearts of them that believe: So they are cast into the mould of it. As is the one, so is the other. The principle of Grace in the heart, and that in the Word, are as children of the same Parent, compleatly resembling and representing one another. Grace is a living Word, and the Word is figured, limned Grace: As is Regeneration, so is a Regenerate heart: As is the Doctrine of faith, so is a Believer. And this gives great Evidence unto, and Assurance of the things that are believed. As we have heard, so we have seen and found it; such a soul can produce the duplicate of the Word, and so adjust all things thereby.