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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.
It is the known voice of the Gospel it self, as Isa. 55. 1, 2, 3. Prov. 9. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And it is the voice of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth, who have been made partakers of Forgiveness, they all testify, that they received it freely.
It is the known voyce of the Gospel it self, as Isa. 55. 1, 2, 3. Prov. 9. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And it is the voyce of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth, who have been made partakers of Forgiveness, they all testifie, that they received it freely.
Some indeed endeavour to abuse this concurrent Testimony of God and Man. What is spoken of the freedom of the Grace of God, they would wrest to the power of the Will of man: But the riches and freedom of Gods mercy do not in the least interfere with the efficacy of his Grace. Though he proclaim pardon in the blood of Christ indefinitely, according to the fullness and excellency of it, yet he giveth out his quickening Grace to enable men to receive it, as he pleaseth, for he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy. But this lies in the thing it self, the way is open and prepared, and it is not because men cannot enter, but because they will not, that they do not enter. As our Saviour Christ tells the Pharisees, Ye therefore hear not Gods Word, because ye are not of God. Joh. 8. 47. and Joh. 6. 44. So he doth, Ye will not come unto me that you may have life, Joh. 5. 40. In the neglect, and inadvertency of the most excusable, there is a positive Act of their Will put forth in the refusing of Christ and Grace by him. And this is done by men under the preaching of the Gospel every day. There is nothing that at the last day will tend more immediately to the advancement of the Glory of God, in the inexcusableness of them who obey not the Gospel, than this, that Terms of Peace in the blessed way of Forgiveness were freely tendered unto them. Some that hear or read this Word, may perhaps have lived long under the dispensation of the Word of Grace, and yet it may be have never once seriously pondered on this way of coming to God by Forgiveness through the blood of Christ; but think, that going to Heaven is a thing of course, that men need not much trouble themselves about; do they know what they have done? hitherto all their days they have positively refused the salvation, that hath been freely tendered unto them in Jesus Christ. Not they, they'll say, they never had such a