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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.
1. Interpretative; so the inanimate and brute creatures ascribe unto God the glory of his Properties, even by what they they are, and do. By what they are in their Beings, and their observation of the Law and inclination of their nature, they give unto God the glory of that Wisdom and Power whereby they are made; and of that Sovereignty whereon they depend. Hence nothing more frequent in the praises of God of old, than the calling of the inanimate creatures, Heaven and Earth, ⟨p. 203⟩Winds, Storms, Thunder, and the Beasts of the field, to give Praise and Glory to God. That is, by what they are, they do so, in as much as from the impression of Gods glorious Excellencies in their Effects upon them, they are made known and manifest.
1. Interpretative; so the inanimate and brute creatures ascribe unto God the glory of his Properties, even by what they they are, and do. By what they are in their Beings, and their observation of the Law and inclination of their nature, they give unto God the glory of that Wisdom and Power whereby they are made; and of that Soveraignty whereon they depend. Hence nothing more frequent in the praises of God of old, than the calling of the inanimate creatures, Heaven and Earth, ⟨p. 203⟩Winds, Storms, Thunder, and the Beasts of the field, to give Praise and Glory to God. That is, by what they are, they do so, in as much as from the impression of Gods glorious Excellencies in their Effects upon them, they are made known and manifest.
2. Involuntary in some rational creatures. Sinning Men and Angels have no design, no will, no desire to give glory to God. They do their utmost endeavour to the contrary, to hate him reproach and blaspheme him. But they cannot yet cast off the yoke of God. In their Minds and Consciences they are forced and shall be for ever to acknowledge that God is infinitely Holy, infinitely Wise, Powerful and Righteous. And he hath the glory of all these Properties from them, in their very desires that he were otherwise. When they would that God were not Just to punish them, Powerful to torment them, Wise to find them out, Holy to be displeased with their lusts and sins, they do at the same time, in the same thing, own acknowledge and give unto God the glory of his Being, Justice, Wisdom, Power and Holiness. When therefore God hath made known his Properties, the Ascription of glory unto him on their account, is to rational creatures, natural and unavoidable.