A53721:482
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.
in a Glass (as in a glass) that is, in the Gospel, which hath the Image and likeness of Christ, who is the Image of God reflected upon it, and communicated unto it. So have we traced Truth, and Grace, from the Person of the Father, unto the Son as Mediator, and thence transfused into the Word. In the Father it is Essentially; in Jesus Christ originally and exemplarily; and in the Word as in a transcript or Copy. But doth it abide there? No, God by the Word of the Gospel shines into our hearts, Chap. 4 6. He irradiates our minds with a saving light into it, and apprehension of it. And what thence ensues? the soul of a believer is changed into the same Image by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost, Chap. 3. 18. that is, the likeness of Christ implanted on the Word, is ⟨p. 170⟩impressed on the soul it self, whereby it is renewed into the Image of God, whereunto it was at first created. This brings all into a perfect Harmony. There is not where Gospel Truth is effectually received, and experienced in the soul, only a consonancy merely between the soul and the Word, but between the soul and Christ by the Word, and the soul and God by Christ. And this gives assured establishment unto the soul in the things that it doth believe. Divine Truth so conveyed unto us, is firm, stable, and immovable. And we can say of it in a spiritual sense, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life, we know to be true. Yea, a Believer is a Testimony to the certainty of truth in what he is, much beyond what he is in all that he saith. Words may be pretended; Real effects have their Testimony inseparably annexed unto them.
in a Glass (as in a glass) that is, in the Gospel, which hath the Image and likeness of Christ, who is the Image of God reflected upon it, and communicated unto it. So have we traced Truth, and Grace, from the Person of the Father, unto the Son as Mediator, and thence transfused into the Word. In the Father it is Essentially; in Jesus Christ originally and exemplarily; and in the Word as in a transcript or Copy. But doth it abide there? No, God by the Word of the Gospel shines into our hearts, Chap. 4 6. He irradiates our minds with a saving light into it, and apprehension of it. And what thence ensues? the soul of a believer is changed into the same Image by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost, Chap. 3. 18. that is, the likeness of Christ implanted on the Word, is