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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.
3 Let it be enquired of them who pretend unto this persuasion, how they came by it; that we may know whether it be of him who calleth us, or no; that we may try whether they have broken through the difficulties in the Entertaining of it, which we have manifested abundantly to lye in the way of it.
3 Let it be enquired of them who pretend unto this perswasion, how they came by it; that we may know whether it be of him who calleth us, or no; that we may try whether they have broken through the difficulties in the Entertaining of it, which we have manifested abundantly to lye in the way of it.
When Peter confessed our Saviour to be the Christ the Son of the living God; He told him that flesh and blood did not reveal that unto him, but his Father who is in Heaven. Matth. 16. 17. It is so with them who indeed believe forgiveness in God: Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto them. It hath not been furthered by any thing within them or without them, but all lies in opposition unto it. This is the work of God that we believe, John 6. 29. A great work, the greatest work that God requireth of us. It is not only a great thing in it self (the Grace of believing is a great thing,) but it is great in respect of its Object, or what we have to believe, or forgiveness it self. The great honour of Abraham's faith lay in this, that deaths and difficulties lay in the way of it. Rom. 4. 18, 19, 20. But what is a dead body, and a dead womb, to an accusing Conscience, a killing Law, and apprehensions of a God terrible as a consuming fire? all which, as was showed, oppose themselves unto a soul called to believe forgiveness.
When Peter confessed our Saviour to be the Christ the Son of the living God; He told him that flesh and blood did not reveal that unto him, but his Father who is in Heaven.