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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.
if you question the truth of what they say, they are ready to produce their warrant under Gods own hand and seal; here then is no room for tergiversation or excuses. Certainly, if you have any care of your eternal estate, if you have any drop of tender blood running in your veins towards your own souls, if you have any rational considerations dwelling in your minds, if all be not defaced and obliterated through the power of lust, and love of sin, you cannot but take your selves to be unspeakably concerned in this proposal; But now if instead hereof, you give up your selves unto the power of unbelief, the will of Satan, the love of your lusts, and this present world, so as to take no notice of this errand or message from God, nor once seriously to enquire after the nature and importance of the terms proposed, Can you escape? shall you be delivered? will your latter end be peace? The Lord knows it will be otherwise with you, and that unto Eternity.
if you question the truth of what they say, they are ready to produce their warrant under Gods own hand and seal; here then is no room for tergiversation or excuses. Certainly, if you have any care of your eternal estate, if you have any drop of tender blood running in your veins towards your own souls, if you have any rational considerations dwelling in your minds, if all be not defaced and obliterated through the power of lust, and love of sin, you cannot but take your selves to be unspeakably concerned in this proposal; But now if instead hereof, you give up your selves unto the power of unbelief, the will of Sathan, the love of your lusts, and this present world, so as to take no notice of this errand or message from God, nor once seriously to enquire after the nature and importance of the terms proposed, Can you escape? shall you be delivered? will your latter end be peace? The Lord knows it will be otherwise with you, and that unto Eternity.
So the Apostle assures us: 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine into them. If you receive not this word, if it be bid from you, it is from the power and efficacy of Satan