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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.
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, Rev. 4. 11. Chap. 5. 12. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory, Honour and Power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. God could have omitted all this great work, without the least impeachment of his Glory. Not one Holy Property of his Nature would have been diminished, or abated in its Eternal Glory by that omission. This then depended on a pure Act of his Will and Choice.
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 meer Soveraign Act of the Will and Pleasure of God. So the whole Creation makes its acknowledgement, Rev. 4. 11. Chap. 5. 12. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory, Honour and Power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. God could have omitted all this great work, without the least impeachment of his Glory. Not one Holy Property of his Nature would have been diminished, or abated in its Eternal Glory by that omission. This then depended on a pure Act of his Will and Choice.