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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.
what Effects hath your Conviction produced in your hearts and lives? Have you been filled with perplexities and consternation of Spirit thereupon? Have you had fears dreads or terrors to wrestle withal? It may be you will say, No; Nor will I insist upon that enquiry; but this I deal with you in. Hath it filled you with self-loathing and Abhorrency, with self-condemnation, and abasement? If it will do any thing this it will do. If you come short here, it is justly to be feared that all your other pretences are of no value; Now where there is no work of conviction, there is no faith of forgiveness, whatever is pretended. And how many vain boasters this sword will cut off is evident.
what Effects hath your Conviction produced in your hearts and lives? Have you been filled with perplexities and consternation of Spirit thereupon? Have you had fears dreads or terrors to wrestle withall? It may be you will say, No; Nor will I insist upon that enquiry; but this I deal with you in. Hath it filled you with self-loathing and Abhorrency, with self-condemnation, and abasement? If it will do any thing this it will do. If you come short here, it is justly to be feared that all your other pretences are of no value; Now where there is no work of conviction, there is no faith of forgiveness, whatever is pretended. And how many vain boasters this sword will cut off is evident.
7. We have yet a greater evidence than all these. Men live in sin, and therefore they do not believe forgiveness of sin. Faith in general purifies the heart, Acts 15. 19. Our souls are purified in obeying the Truth, 1 Pet. 1. 22. and the life is made fruitful by it, James 2. 22. Faith worketh by works, and makes it self perfect by them. And the Doctrine concerning forgiveness hath a special influence into all Holiness, Tit. 2. 11, 12