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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.
Hear then once more poor sin-hardened senseless souls, ye stouthearted, that are far from Righteousness. Is it nothing unto you, that the great and holy God whom ye have provoked all your days, and whom you yet continue to provoke, who hath not the least need of you or your salvation, who can when he pleaseth eternally glorify himself in your destruction, should of his own accord send unto you, to let you know that he is willing to be at peace with you, on the terms he had prepared? The Enmity began on your part, the danger is on your part only; and he might justly expect that the message for peace should begin on your part also; But he begins with you; and shall he be rejected? The Prophet well expresseth this, Isa. 30. 15. Thus saith the Lord God, the holy One of Israel, in returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength, and you would not. The Love and Condescension that is in these words, on the one hand, on the ⟨p. 251⟩part of God, and the folly and ingratitude mentioned in them on the other hand is inexpressible. They are fearful words; But you would not. Remember this against another day. As our Saviour says in the like manner to the Jews; You will not come unto me, that ye may have life. Whatever is pretended, it is will and stubbornness that lye at the bottom of this refusal.
Hear then once more poor sin-hardened sensless souls, ye stouthearted, that are far from Righteousness. Is it nothing unto you, that the great and holy God whom ye have provoked all your dayes, and whom you yet continue to provoke, who hath not the least need of you or your salvation, who can when he pleaseth eternally glorifie himself in your destruction, should of his own accord send unto you, to let you know that he is willing to be at peace with you, on the terms he had prepared? The Enmity began on your part, the danger is on your part only; and he might justly expect that the message for peace should begin on your part also; But he begins with you; and shall he be rejected? The Prophet well expresseth this, Isa. 30. 15. Thus saith the Lord God, the holy One of Israel, in returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength, and you would not. The Love and Condescention that is in these words, on the one hand, on the