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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.
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.
2. On supposition that God would work ad extra, by his Power produce any thing without himself, it was absolutely necessary that himself should be the End of his so doing. For as before the production of all things, there was nothing that could be the end why any of them should be brought forth out of nothing, or towards which they should be disposed: So God being an infinite Agent in Wisdom and Understanding and Power, he could have no End in his Actings, but that also which is infinite. It is therefore natural and necessary unto God to do all things for himself. It is impossible he should have any other end; and he hath done so accordingly,