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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.
4. For matter of fact; it is known and confessed that God hath appointed a Worship for sinners to perform. All the Institutions of the Old and New Testament bear witness hereunto. God was the Author of them. And men know not what they do, when either they neglect them, or would be intermixing their own Imaginations with them. What can the mind of man conceive or invent that may have any influence into this matter, to secure the souls of Believers of their Acceptance with God? Is there any need of their Testimony to the Truth, Faithfulness, and Goodness of God? These things he hath taken upon himself. This then is that which is to be fixed on our souls, upon our first Invitation unto Religious Worship; namely that God intends a new Revenue of Glory from us, and therefore declares that there is a way for the taking away of our sins, without which we can give no Glory to him by our Obedience, and this is done only by forgiveness.
15. There are some Ordinances of Worship appointed for this very end and purpose to confirm unto us the forgiveness of sin. Especially in that Worship which is instituted by the Lord Jesus under the New Testament. I shall instance in one or two.
- 1Especial Ordinances evidencing forgiveness.
First, The Ordinance of Baptism. This was accompanied with the dawning of the Gospel, in the Ministry of John Baptist. And he expressly declared in his Sermons upon it, that it was instituted of God to declare the Remission of sins, Mark 1. 4.