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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.
Secondly, This being the Nature, this the End of a Covenant, there must be some great and important cause, to change, alter, and abrogate a Covenant once made and established, to lay aside one Covenant, and to enter into another. And yet this the Apostle says expressly that God had done, Heb. 8. 13. and proves it, because himself calls that which he promised, a New Covenant, which undeniably confirms two things. First, That the other was become old; and Secondly, That being become so, it was changed, altered and removed. I know the Apostle speaks immediately of the old Administration of the Covenant under the Old Testament or Mosaical Institutions: but he doth so with reference unto that revival which ⟨p. 188⟩in it was given to the first Covenant made with Adam. For in the giving of the Law, and the Curse wherewith it was accompanied which were immixed with that Administration of the Covenant, there was a solemn revival and Representation of the first Covenant, and its Sanction, whereby it had life and power given it to keep the people in bondage all their days. And the end of the Abolition or taking way of the Legal Administration of the Covenant, was merely to take out of Gods dealing with his people, all use and Remembrance of the first Covenant. As was said therefore, to take away, disannul, and change a Covenant so made, ratified, and established betwixt God and man, is a matter that must be resolved into some cogent, important, and indispensable cause. And this will the more evidently appear, if we consider,
Secondly, This being the Nature, this the End of a Covenant, there must be some great and important cause, to change, alter, and abrogate a Covenant once made and established, to lay aside one Covenant, and to enter into another. And yet this the Apostle sayes expresly that God had done, Heb. 8. 13. and proves it, because himself calls that which he promised, a New Covenant, which undeniably confirms two things. First, That the other was become old; and Secondly, That being become so, it was changed, altered and removed. I know the Apostle speaks immediately of the old Administration of the Covenant under the Old Testament or Mosaical Institutions: but he doth so with reference unto that revival which ⟨p. 188⟩