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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, For the security of it, that we may believe it. What greater can be given? God deceiveth no man, no more than he is deceived. And what could God that cannot lye, do more, to give us satisfaction herein than he hath done? Would you be made partakers of this forgiveness? Go unto God, spread before him this whole matter; plead with him that he himself hath so far laid aside the first Covenant, of his own Gracious Will as to make a new one; and that merely because it had no forgiveness in it. This he hath made on purpose that it might be known, that there is forgiveness in him. And shall not we now be made partakers of it? Will he now deny that unto us, which he hath given such Assurance of, and raised such expectations concerning it? Nothing can here wrong us, nothing can ruin us but unbelief. Lay hold on this Covenant, and we shall have pardon. This God expresseth, Isa. 27. 4, 5. Will we continue on the old bottom of the first Covenant? All that we can do thereon, is but to set thorns and briars in the way of God, to secure our selves from his coming against us and upon us with his indignation and fury. Our sins are so, and our Righteousness is no better. And what will be the issue? both they and we shall be trodden down consumed and burnt up. What way then, what remedy is left unto us? only this of laying hold on the arm and strength of God in that Covenant, wherein forgiveness of sin is provided. Therein alone he saith, fury is not in me; and the end will be that we shall have peace with him both here and for ever.
Secondly, For the security of it, that we may believe it. What greater can be given? God deceiveth no man, no more than he is deceived. And what could God that cannot lye, do more, to give us satisfaction herein than he hath done? Would you be made partakers of this forgiveness? Go unto God, spread before him this whole matter; plead with him that he himself hath so far laid aside the first Covenant, of his own Gracious Will as to make a new one; and that meerly because it had no forgiveness in it. This he hath made on purpose that it might be known, that there is forgiveness in him. And shall not we now be made partakers of it? Will he now deny that unto us, which he hath given such Assurance of, and raised such expectations concerning it? Nothing can here wrong us, nothing can ruine us but unbelief. Lay hold on this Covenant, and we shall have pardon. This God expresseth, Isa. 27. 4, 5. Will we continue on the old bottom of the first Covenant? All that we can do thereon, is but to set thorns and bryars in the way of God, to secure our selves from his coming against us and upon us with his indignation and fury. Our sins are so, and our Righteousness is no better. And what will be the issue? both they and we shall be trodden down consumed and burnt up. What way then, what remedy is left unto us? only this of laying hold on the arm and strength of God in that Covenant, wherein forgiveness of sin is provided. Therein alone he saith, fury is not in me; and the end will be that we shall have peace with him both here and for ever.