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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. That this duty is more directly and expressly required in the New Testament than in the Old. Required then it was, but not so openly, so plainly, so expressly as now. Hence we find a different frame of Spirit between them under that dispensation, and those under that of the New Testament. There are found amongst them some such Reflections upon their enemies, their Oppressors, Persecutors, and the like, as although they were warranted by some actings of the Spirit of God in them, yet being suited unto the Dispensation they were under, do no way become us now, who by Jesus Christ receive grace for grace. So Zechariah when he dyed, cried, the Lord look on, and require; but Stephen dying in the same cause and manner said, Lord lay not this sin to their charge. Elijah called for fire from Heaven: But our Saviour reproves the least inclination in his Disciples, to imitate him therein. And the reason of this difference is, because forgiveness in God is under the New Testament far more clearly, especially in the nature and cause of it, discovered in the Gospel, which hath brought life and immortality to light, than it was under the Law. For all our Obedience both in matter and manner, is to be suited unto the discoveries and Revelation of God unto us.
4. That this duty is more directly and expresly required in the New Testament than in the Old. Required then it was, but not so openly, so plainly, so expresly as now. Hence we find a different frame of Spirit between them under that dispensation, and those under that of the New Testament. There are found amongst them some such Reflections upon their enemies, their Oppressors, Persecutors, and the like, as although they were warranted by some actings of the Spirit of God in them, yet being suited unto the Dispensation they were under, do no way become us now, who by Jesus Christ receive grace for grace. So Zechariah when he dyed, cryed, the Lord look on, and require; but Stephen dying in the same cause and manner said, Lord lay not this sin to their charge. Elijah called for fire from Heaven: But our Saviour reproves the least inclination in his Disciples, to imitate him therein. And the reason of this difference is, because forgiveness in God is under the New Testament far more clearly, especially in the nature and cause of it, discovered in the Gospel, which hath brought life and immortality to light, than it was under the Law. For all our Obedience both in matter and manner, is to be suited unto the discoveries and Revelation of God unto us.