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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.
1XIII. Another Evidence of the same Truth may be taken from hence, that God requires forgiveness in us; that we should forgive one another; and therefore doubtless, there is forgiveness with him for us. The sense of this Consideration unto our present purpose will be manifest in the ensuing Observations.
- 1Our Obligation unto mutual forgiveness, proves forgiveness in God.
First, It is certain, that God hath required this of us: The Testimonies hereof are many, and known, so that they need not particularly to be repeated or insisted on. See Luke 17. 3, 4. Ephes. 4. 32. Matth. 18 24. unto the end. Only there are some things that put a singular Emphasis upon this Command, manifesting the great importance of this duty in us, which may be marked. As,
1. That our Saviour requires us to carry a sense of our Integrity and Sincerity in the discharge of this duty, along with us, in our Addresses unto God in prayer. Hence he teacheth and enjoins us to pray, or plead for the forgiveness of our debts to God, (that is, our sins or trespasses against him, which make us debtors to his Law and Justice,) even as we forgive them that so trespass or offend against us, as to stand in need of our forgiveness, Matth. 6. 12