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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.
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.
1. The Name of God is that whereby he reveals himself unto us, whereby he would have us know him, and own him. It is something expressive of his Nature or Properties which he hath appropriated unto himself. Whatever therefore any name of God expresseth him to be, that he is, that we may expect to find him; for he will not deceive us by giving himself a wrong, or a false Name. And on this account he requires us to trust in his name, because he will assuredly be found unto us, what his Name imports. Resting on his name, flying unto his name, calling upon his name, praising his name, things so often mentioned in the Scripture, confirm the same unto us. These things could not be our duty, if we might be deceived in so doing. God is then, and will be to us what his Name declareth.