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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.
Some of you are Drunkards, some of you Swearers, some of you unclean persons, some of you liars, some of you worldly, some of you haters of all the ways of Christ, and all his concernments upon the Earth; proud, covetous, boasters, self-seekers, envious, wrathful, backbiters, malicious praters, slanderers, and the like. And shall we think that such as these believe forgiveness of sin? God forbid. Again, Some of you are dark, ignorant, blind, utterly unacquainted with the mystery of the Gospel, nor do at all make it your business to enquire into it. Either you hear it not at all, or negligently, slothfully, customarily, to no purpose. Let not such persons deceive their own souls: to live in sin and yet to believe the forgiveness of sin, is utterly impossible. Christ will not be a Minister of sin, nor give his Gospel to be a Doctrine of licentiousness for your sakes. Nor shall you be forgiven that you may be delivered to do more Abominations. God forbid.
Some of you are Drunkards, some of you Swearers, some of you unclean persons, some of you lyars, some of you worldly, some of you haters of all the wayes of Christ, and all his concernments upon the Earth; proud, covetous, boasters, selfseekers, envious, wrathful, backbiters, malitious praters, slanderers, and the like. And shall we think that such as these believe forgiveness of sin? God forbid. Again, Some of you are dark, ignorant, blind, utterly unacquainted with the mysterie of the Gospel, nor do at all make it your business to enquire into it. Either you hear it not at all, or negligently, slothfully, customarily, to no purpose. Let not such persons deceive their own souls: to live in sin and yet to believe the forgiveness of sin, is utterly impossible. Christ will not be a Minister of sin, nor give his Gospel to be a Doctrine of licentiousness for your sakes. Nor shall you be forgiven that you may be delivered to do more Abominations. God forbid.
If any shall say, that they thank God, they are no such Publicans as those mentioned; they are no drunkards, no swearers, no unclean persons, nor the like, so that they are not concerned in this consideration. Their lives and their duties give another account of them: then yet consider further,