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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.
14. One particular instance more of this nature shall conclude this Evidence: God hath commanded us, the Lord Christ hath taught us to pray for the pardon of sin, which gives us unquestionable security that it may be attained, that it is to be found in God; for the clearing whereof observe,
- 1Prayer for the Pardon of sin commanded.
1. That the Lord Christ in the Revelation of the Will of God unto us, as unto the duty that he required at our hands, hath taught and instructed us to pray for the forgiveness of sin. It is one of the Petitions which he hath left on record for our use and imitation in that summary of all prayer which he hath given us, Matth. 6. 12. Forgive us our debts, our trespasses, our sins: Some contend that this is a form of prayer to be used in the prescript limited words of it. All grant that it is a Rule for prayer, comprising the heads of all necessary things, that we are to pray for, and obliging us to make supplications for them. So then upon the Authority of God revealed unto us by Jesus Christ, we are bound in duty to pray for pardon of sins, or forgiveness.
1. That the Lord Christ in the Revelation of the Will of God unto us, as unto the duty that he required at our hands, hath taught and instructed us to pray for the forgiveness of sin. It is one of the Petitions which he hath left on record for our use and imitation in that summary of all prayer which he hath given us, Matth. 6. 12. Forgive us our debts, our trespasses, our sins: Some contend that this is a form of prayer to be used in the prescript limited words of it. All grant that it is a Rule for prayer, comprizing the heads of all necessary things, that we are to pray for, and obliging us to make supplications for them. So then upon the Authority of God revealed unto us by Jesus Christ, we are bound in duty to pray for pardon of sins, or forgiveness.