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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. The Curse and Sentence of the Law lies on record against sinners. It puts in its Demands against our acquittance, and lays an obligation upon us unto punishment. And God will not reject, nor destroy his Law, unless it be answered there is no acceptance for sinners. This therefore in the next place his death was designed unto. As he satisfied and made Atonement by it unto Justice, (that was the fountain, spring and cause of the Law) so he fulfilled and answered the demands of the Law as it was an Effect of the Justice of God: So Rom. 8. 13. He suffered in the likeness of sinful flesh, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled, and answered. He answered the Curse of the Law when he was made a Curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. And so became as to the Obedience of the Law, the end of the Law for Righteousness unto them that do believe, Rom. 10. 3, 4. And as to the penalty that it threatened, he bore it, removed it, and took it out of the way. So hath he made way for forgiveness through the very heart of the Law; it hath not one word to speak against the pardon of them that do believe. But,
2. The Curse and Sentence of the Law lyes on record against sinners. It puts in its Demands against our acquittance, and layes an obligation upon us unto punishment. And God will not reject, nor destroy his Law, unless it be answered there is no acceptance for sinners. This therefore in the next place his death was designed unto. As he satisfied and made Attonement by it unto Justice, (that was the fountain, spring and cause of the Law) so he fulfilled and answered the demands of the Law as it was an Effect of the Justice of God: So Rom. 8. 13. He suffered in the likeness of sinful flesh, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled, and answered. He answered the Curse of the Law when he was made a Curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. And so became as to the Obedience of the Law, the end of the Law for Righteousness unto them that do believe, Rom. 10. 3, 4. And as to the penalty that it threatned, he bore it, removed it, and took it out of the way. So hath he made way for forgiveness through the very heart of the Law; it hath not one word to speak against the pardon of them that do believe. But,