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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.
Answ. He bare our sins in his own body upon the Tree, 1 Pet. 2. 24. He took our sins upon him, undertook to answer for them, to pay our debts, to make an end of the difference about them between God and sinners, Dan. 9. 24. His aim undoubtedly was by all that he underwent and suffered, so to make Atonement for sin, as that no more could on that account be expected.
Answ. He bare our sins in his own body upon the Tree, 1 Pet. 2. 24. He took our sins upon him, undertook to answer for them, to pay our debts, to make an end of the difference about them between God and sinners, Dan. 9. 24. His aim undoubtedly was by all that he underwent and suffered, so to make Attonement for sin, as that no more could on that account be expected.
4. Had God any more to require of sinners on the account of sin, that his Justice might be satisfied, his Holiness vindicated, his Glory exalted, his Honour be repaired, than what he charged on Christ? Did he lay somewhat of the penalty due to sin on him, execute some part of the curse of the Law against him, and yet reserve some wrath for sinners themselves?
Answ. No doubtless: He came to do the whole Will of God, Heb. 10. 7, 8. And God spared him not any thing that in his holy will he had appointed to be done unto sin,