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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.
1. That notwithstanding all your sins, all the evil that your own hearts know you to be guilty of, and that hidden Mass or evil treasure of sin which is in you, which you are not able to look into; notwithstanding that charge that lies upon you from your own Consciences, and that dreadful sentence and curse of the Law which you are obnoxious unto; notwithstanding all the just grounds that you have to apprehend that God is your Enemy, and will be so unto eternity; yet there are Terms of Peace and Reconciliation, provided and proposed between him and your souls. This in the first place is spoken out by the Word we have insisted on. Whatever else it informs us of, this it positively asserts; namely, that there is a way whereby sinners may come to be accepted with God: For there is forgiveness with him that he may be feared. And we hope that we have not confirmed it by so many Testimonies, by so many Evidences in vain. Now that you may see how great a privilege this is, and how much your concernment lies in it; Consider,
1. That notwithstanding all your sins, all the evil that your own hearts know you to be guilty of, and that hidden Mass or evil treasure of sin which is in you, which you are not able to look into; notwithstanding that charge that lyes upon you from your own Consciences, and that dreadful sentence and curse of the Law which you are obnoxious unto; notwithstanding all the just grounds that you have to apprehend that God is your Enemy, and will be so unto eternity; yet there are Terms of Peace and Reconciliation, provided and proposed between him and your souls. This in the first place is spoken out by the Word we have insisted on. Whatever else it informs us of, this it positively asserts; namely, that there is a way whereby sinners may come to be accepted with God: For there is forgiveness with him that he may be feared. And we hope that we have not confirmed it by so many Testimonies, by so many Evidences in vain. Now that you may see how great a priviledge this is, and how much your concernment lyes in it; Consider,
1. That this belongs unto you in an especial manner, it is your peculiar advantage.