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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.
4. Besides all this, there ensues upon what went before, that great and wonderful Issue, in the death of the Son of God. This thing was great and marvellous, and we may a little enquire into what it was, that was designed therein. And hereof the Scripture gives us a full account. As,
4. Besides all this, there ensues upon what went before, that great and wonderfull Issue, in the death of the Son of God. This thing was great and marvellous, and we may a little enquire into what it was, that was designed therein. And hereof the Scripture gives us a full account. As,
1. That he dyed to make Atonement for Sin, or Reconciliation for Iniquity, Dan. 9. 24. He gave his life a ransom for the sins of many, Matth. 20. 28. 1 Tim. 2. 6. He was in it made sin, ⟨p. 212⟩that others might become the righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 20. Rom. 8. 3. Therein he bare our sins in his body on the Tree, 1 Pet. 2. 24. This was the state of this matter. Notwithstanding all the Love, Grace and condescension before mentioned, yet our sins were of that nature, and so directly opposite unto the Justice and Holiness of God, that unless Atonement were made, and a Price of Redemption paid, there could be no Pardon, no forgiveness obtained. This therefore he undertook to do, and that by the Sacrifice of himself; answering all that was prefigured by, and represented in the Sacrifices of old; as the Apostle largely declares,