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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.
Let us lay together these Considerations, and we shall find that they will give us another stable foundation of the Truth insisted on; and a great encouragement to poor sinful souls to draw nigh to God in Christ for Pardon. God hath no Name but what he gives unto himself. Nor is it lawful to know him, or call him otherwise; as he calls himself, so is he. What his Name imports, so is his Nature. Every name also of God is engaged in Jesus Christ in the Covenant, and is proposed unto us to place our Trust and Confidence in. Now this is his name and his memorial, even the God of Forgiveness. By this he distinguisheth himself from all others, and expresseth it as the principal Title of his Honour, or his peculiar Glory. According to this name therefore all that believe shall assuredly find, There is forgiveness with him.
1XI. The consideration of the Essential Properties of the Nature of God, and what is required to the manifestation of them, will afford us further Assurance hereof. Let us to this end take in the ensuing Observations.
- 1[…], of Gods Nature, manifesting Forgiveness.〈…〉, of Gods Nature, manifesting Forgiveness.
God being absolutely perfect, and absolutely self-sufficient, was eternally glorious, and satisfied with, and in his own holy Excellencies and Perfections, before, and without the creation of all or any thing, by the putting forth or the exercise of his Almighty Power. The making therefore of all things depends on a mere Sovereign Act of the Will and Pleasure of God. So the whole Creation makes its acknowledgement,