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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.
Secondly, That the Terms provided for you, and proposed unto you, are equal, holy, righteous, yea pleasant, and easy. This being another General Head of our work in hand, before I proceed to the further explication and confirmation of it, I shall educe one or two Observations from what hath been delivered on the first. As,
Secondly, That the Terms provided for you, and proposed unto you, are equal, holy, righteous, yea pleasant, and easie. This being another General Head of our work in hand, before I proceed to the further explication and confirmation of it, I shall educe one or two Observations from what hath been delivered on the first. As,
1. See here on what foundation we preach the Gospel. Many disputes there are, whether Christ died for all individuals of Mankind or no; if we say No, but only for the Elect who are some of all sorts; some then tell us, we cannot invite all ⟨p. 253⟩men promiscuously to believe. But why so; we invite not men, as all men; no man, as one of all men, but all men as Sinners: And we know that Christ died for Sinners. But is this the first thing, that we are in the dispensation of the Gospel to propose to the Soul of a sinner, under the Law; That Christ dyed for him in particular. Is that the beginning of our Message unto him? were not this a ready way to induce him to conclude, Let me then continue in sin that Grace may abound; No; but this is in order of Nature our first work; even that which we have had in hand. This is the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the voice of one crying in the Wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. There is a way of Reconciliation provided. God is in Christ reconciling the World to himself. There is a way of acceptance; there is Forgiveness with him to be obtained. At this Threshold of the Lords house, doth the greatest part of men to whom the Gospel is preached fall and perish, never looking in to see the Treasures that are in the house it self; never coming into any such state and condition, wherein they have any ground or bottom to enquire, whether Christ dyed for them in particular or no. They believe not this report, nor take any serious notice of it. This was the Ministry of the Baptist, and they who received it not, rejected the counsel of God concerning their salvation,