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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.
But now when God came to fulfil his Promises, and to bring the people by virtue of his Covenant into the Land of Canaan, he reveals himself unto them by, and renews his Covenant with them in the name of Jehovah. And hereby did God declare, that he came to give stability and Accomplishment unto his Promises. To which end they were now to live upon this name of Jehovah in an expectation of the fulfilling of the Promises; as their Fathers did on that of God Almighty in an expectation of protection from him in their wandering state and condition. Hence this name became the foundation of the Judaical Church, and ground of the faith of them who did sincerely believe in God therein. And it is strangely fallen out in the Providence of God, that since the Jews have rejected the Covenant of their Fathers, and are cast out of the Covenant for their unbelief, they have utterly forgot that Name of God. No Jew in the world knows what it is, nor how to pronounce it, or make mention of it. I know themselves, and others pretend strange Mysteries in the Letters and Vowels of that name which make it ineffable. But the truth is, being cast out of that Covenant which was built and established on that name, in the just Judgement of God, through their own blindness and superstition, they are no more able to make mention of it, or to take it into their mouths. It is required then that the name of God be given unto us as engaged in Covenant, to secure our expectation that he will be unto us according to his name.
But now when God came to fulfill his Promises, and to bring the people by vertue of his Covenant into the Land of Canaan, he reveals himself unto them by, and renews his Covenant with them in the name of Jehovah. And hereby did God declare, that he came to give stability and Accomplishment unto his Promises. To which end they were now to live upon this name of Jehovah in an expectation of the fulfilling of the Promises; as their Fathers did on that of God Almighty in an expectation of protection from him in their wandring state and condition. Hence this name became the foundation of the Judaical Church, and ground of the faith of them who did sincerely believe in God therein. And it is strangely fallen out in the Providence of God, that since the Jews have rejected the Covenant of their Fathers, and are cast out of the Covenant for their unbelief, they have utterly forgot that Name of God. No Jew in the world knows what it is, nor how to pronounce it, or make mention of it. I know themselves, and others pretend strange Mysteries in the Letters and Vowels of that name which make it ineffable. But the truth is, being cast out of that Covenant which was built and established on that name, in the just Judgement of God, through their own blindness and superstition, they are no more able to make mention of it, or to take it into their mouths. It is required then that the name of God be given unto us as engaged in Covenant, to secure our expectation that he will be unto us according to his name.