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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. › Verses 1, 2 › 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.
1Whence it is that Believers may be brought into depths on the account of sin. Nature of the supplies of Grace given in the Covenant. How far they extend. Principles of the power of sin.
- 1The Nature and Extent of supplies of Grace according to the Covenant.
First, The Nature of the Covenant wherein all Believers now walk with God, and wherein all their whole provision for obedience is enwrapped, leaves it possible for them to fall into these depths that have been mentioned. Under the first Covenant, there was no mercy or forgiveness provided for any sin. It was necessary then that it should exhibit a sufficiency of Grace to preserve from every sin, or it could have been of no use at all. This the Righteousness of God required, and so it was. To have made a Covenant wherein there was no provision at all of pardon, and not a sufficiency of Grace to keep the Covenanters from need of pardon, was not answerable to the Goodness and Righteousness of God. But he made man upright who of his own accord sought out many inventions.
First, The Nature of the Covenant wherein all Believers now walk with God, and wherein all their whole provision for obedience is enwrapped, leaves it possible for them to fall into these depths that have been mentioned. Under the first Covenant, there was no mercy or forgiveness provided for any sin. It was necessary then that it should exhibit a sufficiency of Grace to preserve from every sin, or it could have been of no use at all. This the Rigteousness of God required, and so it was. To have made a Covenant wherein there was no provision at all of pardon, and not a sufficiency of Grace to keep the Covenanters from need of pardon, was not answerable to the Goodness and Righteousness of God. But he made man upright who of his own accord sought out many inventions.