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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.
1. That is done Positively, He that believeth not shall be DAMNED, Mark. 16. 16. That's a hard word; many men cannot endure to hear of it. They would not have it named by their good wills, and are ready to fly in the face of him from whose mouth it proceeds. But let not men deceive themselves, this is the softest word, that Mercy, and Love it self, that Christ, that the Gospel speaks to despisers of forgiveness. It is Christ who is this legal terrifying Preacher; it is he that cries out, if you believe not, you shall be Damned; and will come himself in flaming fire to take vengeance of them that obey not the Gospel, 2 Thess. 2. 8. This is the end of the disobedient; if God, if Christ, if the Gospel may be believed.
1. That is done Positively, He that believeth not shall be DAMNED, Mark. 16. 16. That's a hard word; many men cannot endure to hear of it. They would not have it named by their good wills, and are ready to fly in the face of him from whose mouth it proceeds. But let not men deceive themselves, this is the softest word, that Mercy, and Love it self, that Christ, that the Gospel speaks to despisers of forgiveness. It is Christ who is this legal terrifying Preacher; it is he that cryes out, if you believe not, you shall be Damned; and will come himself in flaming fire to take vengeance of them that obey not the Gospel, 2 Thess. 2. 8. This is the end of the disobedient; if God, if Christ, if the Gospel may be believed.
2. Comparatively in reference unto the Vengeance due to the breach of the Law, 2 Cor. 2. 16. We are in the preaching of forgiveness by Christ, unto them that perish, a savour of death unto death, a deep death, a sore Condemnation, so