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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.
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, Ephes. 1. 4. Our Holiness, whose only spring is our Regeneration, is an effect of our Election; That which God works in our souls, in the pursuit of his eternal purpose of Love and good will towards us. So again, saith the Apostle, 2 Thes. 2. 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through the sanctification of the Spirit. God having designed us unto salvation as the End, hath also appointed the sanctification of the Spirit to be the Means to bring us orderly unto the attainment of that End. But the best of common Grace or Gifts that may be in men Unregenerate, are but products of the Providence of God, ordering all things in general unto his own Glory, and the good of them that shall be heirs of salvation. They are not fruits of Electing Eternal Love, nor designed means for the infallible attaining of Eternal Salvation.
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, Ephes. 1. 4. Our Holiness, whose only spring is our Regeneration, is an effect of our Election; That which God works in our souls, in the pursuit of his eternal purpose of Love and good will towards us. So again, saith the Apostle, 2 Thes. 2. 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through the sanctification of the Spirit. God having designed us unto salvation as the End, hath also appointed the sanctification of the Spirit to be the Means to bring us orderly unto the attainment of that End. But the best of common Grace or Gifts that may be in men Unregenerate, are but products of the Providence of God, ordering all things in general unto his own Glory, and the good of them that shall be heirs of salvation. They are not fruits of Electing Eternal Love, nor designed means for the insiallible attaining of Eternal Salvation.