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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.
5. Ponder seriously on what hath been spoken of this way of approaching unto God. Consider it in its own nature, as to all the ends and purposes for which it is proposed of God: Consider, whether you Approve of it or no; do you judge it a way suited ⟨p. 274⟩and fitted to bring glory unto God? doth it answer all the wants and distresses of your souls? Do you think it excellent, safe, and Glorious unto them who are entered unto it? or have you any thing to object against it? Return your Answer to him in whose Name, and by whose Appointment these words are spoken unto you. If you shall say, we are convinced that this way of forgiveness is the only way for the relief and deliverance of our Souls; Then,
5. Ponder seriously on what hath been spoken of this way of approaching unto God. Consider it in its own nature, as to all the ends and purposes for which it is proposed of God: Consider, whether you Approve of it or no; do you judge it a way suited ⟨p. 274⟩and fitted to bring glory unto God? doth it answer all the wants and distresses of your souls? Do you think it excellent, safe, and Glorious unto them who are entred unto it? or have you any thing to object against it? Return your Answer to him in whose Name, and by whose Appointment these words are spoken unto you. If you shall say, we are convinced that this way of forgiveness is the only way for the relief and deliverance of our Souls; Then,
6. Abhor your selves for all your blindness and obstinacy whereby you have hither to despised the love of God, the blood of Christ, and the Tenders of Pardon in the Gospel. Be abased and humbled to the dust, in a sense of your vileness, Pollutions, and Abominations; which things are every day spoken unto, and need not here be repeated. And,
6. Abhorr your selves for all your blindness and obstinacy whereby you have hither to despised the love of God, the blood of Christ, and the Tenders of Pardon in the Gospel. Be abased and humbled to the dust, in a sense of your vileness, Pollutions, and Abominations; which things are every day spoken unto, and need not here be repeated. And,