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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.
2. Whom did God send about this business? The Scripture lays great weight and Emphasis on this consideration, faith must do so also: John 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son: So 1 John 4. 9. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And again, v. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us: and sent his Son to be the propitiations of our sins. And who is this that is thus sent and called the only begotten Son of God? Take a double description of him, one out of the Old Testament, and another from the new. The first from Isa. 9. 6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace: The other from Heb. 1. 2, 3. God hath spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all, by whom also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of his Glory, and the express Image of his Person, upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. This is he who was sent; in Nature he was glorious; even over all God blessed for ever. In Answerableness unto the Father; the brightness of his Glory, and the express Image of his person: possessed of all the same essential Properties with him. So that what we find in him, we may be assured of in the Father also; for he that hath seen him, hath seen the Father, who is in him. In Power, Omnipotent, for he made all things, and upholding all things with an unspeakable facility, by the Word of his power. In Office, exalted over all, sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high. In Name, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father; so ⟨p. 210⟩that whatever he came about, he will assuredly accomplish and fulfil; for what should hinder or let this Mighty One from perfecting his design?
2. Whom did God send about this business? The Scripture layes great weight and Emphasis on this consideration, faith must do so also: