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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.
God at first placed Man in a blessed state and condition, in such a dependence on himself, as that he might have wrought out his Eternal happiness with a great Reputation of Glory ⟨p. 258⟩unto himself. Man being in this honour, saith the Psalmist, abode not. God now fixes on another way, as I said, wherein all the Glory shall be his own, as the Apostle at large sets it forth, Rom. 3. 23, 24, 25, 26. Now neither the way from which Adam fell, nor that wherein some of the Angels continued, which for the substance were the same, is to be compared with this of Forgiveness, as to the bringing Glory unto God. I hate curiosities and conjectures in the things of God: Yet upon the account of the interposition of the blood of Christ, I think I may boldly say, there comes more glory to God, by saving one sinner in this way of Forgiveness, than in giving the reward of blessedness to all the Angels in Heaven; So seems it to appear, from that solemn Representation, we have of the Ascription of Glory to God by the whole Creation, Revel. 5. 9. 10, 11, 12, 13. All centres in the bringing forth Forgiveness by the blood of the Lamb.
God at first placed Man in a blessed state and condition, in such a dependance on himself, as that he might have wrought out his Eternal happiness with a great Reputation of Glory ⟨p. 258⟩unto himself. Man being in this honour, saith the Psalmist, abode not. God now fixes on another way, as I said, wherein all the Glory shall be his own, as the Apostle at large sets it forth, Rom. 3. 23, 24, 25, 26. Now neither the way from which Adam fell, nor that wherein some of the Angels continued, which for the substance were the same, is to be compared with this of Forgiveness, as to the bringing Glory unto God. I hate curiosities and conjectures in the things of God: Yet upon the account of the interposition of the blood of Christ, I think I may boldly say, there comes more glory to God, by saving one sinner in this way of Forgiveness, than in giving the reward of blessedness to all the Angels in Heaven; So seems it to appear, from that solemn Representation, we have of the Ascription of Glory to God by the whole Creation,