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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. Seeing the Son of God dyed in that way and manner that he did according to the determinate Counsel and Will of God, wherefore did he do so, and what aimed he at therein?
Answ. It is plain that he dyed for our sins, Rom. 4. 25. that is, to make reconciliation for the sins of his people, Heb. 2. 17, 18. This Moses and the Prophets, this the whole Scripture testifieth unto; and without a supposal of it, not one word of it can be aright believed. Nor can we yield any due Obedience unto God without it.
2. What then did God do unto him? What was in transaction between God as the Judge of all, and him that was the Mediator of the Church?
Answ. God indeed laid on him the iniquities of us all, Isa. 53. 6. all the sins of all the Elect; yea, he made him a curse for us,