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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. Wherefore, All the Revenue of Glory that God will receive by his Worship, depends merely on his own voluntary Choice and Appointment. All Worship, I say, depends now on the Sovereign Will and pleasure of God. It is true there is a natural Worship due from rational creatures, by the Law of their Creation. This was indispensably and absolutely necessary at first. The very Being of God, and order of things required that it should be so. Supposing that God had made such creatures as we are, it could not be, but that Moral Obedience was due unto him; namely, that he should be believed in, trusted and obeyed ⟨p. 176⟩as the First Cause, Last End, and Sovereign Lord of all. But the entrance of sin, laying the sinner absolutely under the Curse of God, utterly put an end to this Order of things. Man was now to have perished immediately, and an end to be put unto the Law of this Obedience. But here, in the Sovereign Will of God an Interposition was made between sin and the sentence; and man was respited from destruction. All Worship following hereon, even that which was before natural by the Law of creation, is now resolved into an Arbitrary Act of Gods will.
2. Wherefore, All the Revenue of Glory that God will receive by his Worship, depends meerly on his own voluntary Choice and Appointment. All Worship, I say, depends now on the Soveraign Will and pleasure of God. It is true there is a natural Worship due from rational creatures, by the Law of their Creation. This was indispensably and absolutely necessary at first. The very Being of God, and order of things required that it should be so. Supposing that God had made such creatures as we are, it could not be, but that Moral Obedience was due unto him; namely, that he should be believed in, trusted and obeyed ⟨p. 176⟩as the First Cause, Last End, and Soveraign Lord of all. But the entrance of sin, laying the sinner absolutely under the Curse of God, utterly put an end to this Order of things. Man was now to have perished immediately, and an end to be put unto the Law of this Obedience. But here, in the Soveraign Will of God an Interposition was made between sin and the sentence; and man was respited from destruction. All Worship following hereon, even that which was before natural by the Law of creation, is now resolved into an Arbitrary Act of Gods will.