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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. 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, Rom. 8. 32. He would never have so dealt with his Son, to have made an half work of it; nor is the work of making satisfaction for sin such, as that any, the least part of it should ever be undertaken by another. Nothing is more injurious, or blasphemous against God and Christ, than the foolish imagination among the Papists of works satisfactory for the punishment due to sin, or any part of it: As also is their Purgatory pains to expiate any remaining guilt after this life. This work of making satisfaction for sin is such, as no creature in Heaven or Earth can put forth an hand unto. It was wholly committed to the Son of God, who alone was able to undertake it, and who hath perfectly accomplished it. So that God now says, fury is not in me, he that will lay hold on my strength that he may have peace, he shall have peace, Isa. 21. 4.
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, Rom. 8. 32. He would never have so dealt with his Son, to have made an half work of it; nor is the work of making satisfaction for sin such, as that any, the least part of it should ever be undertaken by another. Nothing is more injurious, or blasphemous against God and Christ, than the foolish imagination among the Papists of works satisfactory for the punishment due to sin, or any part of it: As also is their Purgatory pains to expiate any remaining guilt after this life. This work of making satisfaction for sin is such, as no creature in Heaven or Earth can put forth an hand unto. It was wholly committed to the Son of God, who alone was able to undertake it, and who hath perfectly accomplished it. So that God now sayes, fury is not in me, he that will lay hold on my strength that he may have peace, he shall have peace,