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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.
The Name of God confirming the Truth and Reality of Forgiveness with him. As also the same is done by the Properties of his Nature.
1X. Another foundation of this Truth, and infallible Evidence of it may be taken from that especial Name and Title which God takes unto himself in this matter. For he owns the name of the God of Pardons; or the God of forgiveness. So is he called, Nehem. 9. 17. [Greek or Hebrew] we have rendered the words, Thou art a God ready to forgive; but they are as was said, And thou art the God of Pardons, Forgiveness, or Propitiations. That is his Name, which he owneth, which he accepteth of the Ascription of unto himself. The Name whereby he will be known. And to clear this Evidence we must take in some considerations of the Name of God, and the Use thereof. As,
1X. Another foundation of this Truth, and infallible Evidence of it may be taken from that especial Name and Title which God takes unto himself in this matter. For he owns the name of the God of Pardons; or the God of forgiveness. So is he called, Nehem. 9. 17. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 we have rendred the words, Thou art a God ready to forgive; but they are as was said, And thou art the God of Pardons, Forgiveness, or Propitiations. That is his Name, which he owneth, which he accepteth of the Ascription of unto himself. The Name whereby he will be known. And to clear this Evidence we must take in some considerations of the Name of God, and the Use thereof. As,
- 1Forgiveness confirmed by the Name of God.