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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.
This is the meaning of that Prayer of the Apostle, Col. 2. 2. That your hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, unto all riches of the full Assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father and of Christ. Understanding in the mysteries of the Gospel they had; but he prays that by a farther experience of it, they might come to the Assurance of understanding. To be true, is the property of the Doctrine it self, to be certain or assured is the property of our minds. Now this experience doth so unite the mind and truth, that we say, such a Truth is most certain, whereas certainty is indeed the property of our minds or their knowledge, and not of the truth known. It is certain unto us, that is, we have an assured knowledge of it, by the Experience we have of it. This is the Assurance of Understanding here mentioned. And he further prays, that we may come to the Riches of this Assurance; that is to an abundant plentiful Assurance. And that [Greek or Hebrew], to the acknowledgement of the Mystery of God, owning it from a sense and experience of its excellency and worth.
This is the meaning of that Prayer of the Apostle, Col. 2. 2. That your hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, unto all riches of the full Assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mysterie of God, and of the Father and of Christ. Understanding in the mysteries of the Gospel they had; but he prayes that by a farther experience of it, they might come to the Assurance of understanding. To be true, is the property of the Doctrine it self, to be certain or assured is the property of our minds. Now this experience doth so unite the mind and truth, that we say, such a Truth is most certain, whereas certainty is indeed the property of our minds or their knowledge, and not of the truth known. It is certain unto us, that is, we have an assured knowledge of it, by the Experience we have of it. This is the Assurance of Understanding here mentioned. And he further prayes, that we may come to the Riches of this Assurance; that is to an abundant plentiful Assurance. And that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to the acknowledgement of the Mysterie of God, owning it from a sense and experience of its excellency and worth.