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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.
1And these are the Enforcements of the Exhortation in hand, which I shall insist upon. On these foundations, on the consideration of these Principles, let us now a little confer together, with the words of Truth and Sobriety. I speak to such poor souls, as having deceived themselves, or neglected utterly their Eternal Condition, are not as yet really, and in Truth made partakers of this forgiveness. Your present state is sad, and deplorable. There is nothing but the woeful uncertainty of a dying life between you and Eternal ruin. That persuasion you have of forgiveness, is Good for nothing but to harden you, and destroy you. It is not the Forgiveness that is with God. Nor have you taken it up on Gospel grounds or Evidences. You have stolen painted beads, and take your selves to be lawful possessors of Pearls and Jewels. As you are then any way concerned in your own Eternal Condition, ⟨p. 271⟩which you are entering into, (and how soon you shall be engaged in it you know not) prevail with your selves to attend a little unto the Exhortation that lies before you; it is your own business that you are entreated to have regard unto.
1And these are the Enforcements of the Exhortation in hand, which I shall insist upon. On these foundations, on the consideration of these Principles, let us now a little conferre together, with the words of Truth and Sobriety. I speak to such poor souls, as having deceived themselves, or neglected utterly their Eternal Condition, are not as yet really, and in Truth made partakers of this forgiveness. Your present state is sad, and deplorable. There is nothing but the wofull uncertainty of a dying life between you and Eternal ruine. That perswasion you have of forgiveness, is Good for nothing but to harden you, and destroy you. It is not the Forgiveness that is with God. Nor have you taken it up on Gospel grounds or Evidences. You have stollen painted beads, and take your selves to be lawfull possessors of Pearls and Jewels. As you are then any way concerned in your own Eternal Condition, ⟨p. 271⟩which you are entring into, (and how soon you shall be ingaged in it you know not) prevail with your selves to attend a little unto the Exhortation that lyes before you; it is your own business that you are entreated to have regard unto.