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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.
Do you aright consider the nature of this matter? The Scripture proposeth it as an object of eternal admiration, So ⟨p. 254⟩God loved the World; herein is love, not that we loved God, but he loved us first. Live in this Admiration, and do your utmost in your several capacities to prevail with your Friends, Relations, Acquaintance, to hearken after this great treaty of peace with God, whose terms we shall nextly consider, as before in general they were expressed.
Do you aright consider the nature of this matter? The Scripture proposeth it as an object of eternal admiration, So ⟨p. 254⟩God loved the World; herein is love, not that we loved God, but he loved us first. Live in this Admiration, and do your utmost in your several capacities to prevail with your Friends, Relations, Acquaintance, to hearken after this great treaty of peace with God, whose terms we shall nextly consider, as before in generall they were expressed.
12. The terms provided for you, and proposed unto you, are equal, holy, righteous, yea pleasant and easy, Hes. 2. 18, 19. They are not such, as a cursed guilty sinner might justly expect, but such as are meet for an infinitely Good and Gracious God to propose; not suited to the Wisdom of man, but full of the wisdom of God, 2 Cor. 2. 6, 7. The poor convinced wretch, thinking of dealing with God, Micah 6. 6, 7. rolls in his mind what terms he is like to meet withal; and fixes on the most dreadful, difficult, and impossible that can be imagined. If saith he any thing be done with this Great and most high God, it must be by Rivers, Thousands, and Ten Thousands, Children, first born; whatever is dreadful and terrible to Nature, whatever is impossible for me to perform, that is it which he looks for. But the matter is quite otherwise. The terms are wholly of another nature; it is a way of mere mercy, a way of free forgiveness. The Apostle lays it down,