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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.
3. It is voluntary in the reasonable service, Worship, Fear, Trust, Obedience, of Angels and Men. God having revealed unto them the Properties of his Nature, they acknowledge, adore them, and place their confidence in them, and thereby glorify him as God. And this glorifying of God consisteth in three things.
3. It is voluntary in the reasonable service, Worship, Fear, Trust, Obedience, of Angels and Men. God having revealed unto them the Properties of his Nature, they acknowledge, adore them, and place their confidence in them, and thereby glorifie him as God. And this glorifying of God consisteth in three things.
1. In making the Excellencies of God revealed unto us, the Principle and Chief Object of all the moral actings of our souls, and of all the actings of our Affections. To fear the Lord and his Goodness, and to fear him for his Goodness; to trust in his Power and Faithfulness, to obey his Authority, to delight in his Will and Grace, to love him above all, because of his Excellencies and Beauty, this is to glorify him.
1. In making the Excellencies of God revealed unto us, the Principle and Chief Object of all the moral actings of our souls, and of all the actings of our Affections. To fear the Lord and his Goodness, and to fear him for his Goodness; to trust in his Power and Faithfulness, to obey his Authority, to delight in his Will and Grace, to love him above all, because of his Excellencies and Beauty, this is to glorifie him.
2. To pray for, and to rejoice in all the ways and means whereby he will, or hath promised further to manifest or declare these Properties of his Nature and his Glory in them.