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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.
2. As these two estates differ morally in themselves, and Physically ⟨p. 332⟩in the causes constitutive of that difference; so there is a specific difference between the things that place men in the one condition and in the other. Whatever there is of Goodness, Virtue, Duty, Grace in an Unregenerate person, there is in him that is Regenerate somewhat of another kind that is not in the other at all. For the difference of these states themselves it is plain in Scripture. The one is a state of Death, the other of Life; the one of Darkness, the other of Light; the one of Enmity against God, the other of Reconciliation with him. And that the one state is constituted by that of Grace which is of a peculiar kind, and which is not in the other. I shall briefly declare.
2. As these two estates differ morally in themselves, and Physically ⟨p. 332⟩in the causes constitutive of that difference; so there is a specifical difference between the things that place men in the one condition and in the other. Whatever there is of Goodness, Virtue, Duty, Grace in an Unregenerate person, there is in him that is Regenerate somewhat of another kind that is not in the other at all. For the difference of these states themselves it is plain in Scripture. The one is a state of Death, the other of Life; the one of Darkness, the other of Light; the one of Enmity against God, the other of Reconciliation with him. And that the one state is constituted by that of Grace which is of a peculiar kind, and which is not in the other. I shall briefly declare.
11. The Grace of Regeneration proceedeth from an especial spring and fountain, which emptieth much of its living waters into it, no one drop whereof falls on them that are not Regenerate. This is Electing Love; it is given out in the pursuit of the Decree of Election; God hath chosen us that we should be holy,