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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, I do not say, This is always known to the persons themselves concerned in this distribution. Many cry peace, peace when sudden destruction is at hand. These either think themselves regenerate when they are not, or else wilfully despise the consideration of what is required in them, that they may have peace, and so delude their own souls unto their ruin. And many that are truly born of God, yet know it not. They may for a season walk in darkness and have no light; Nor
1. That, I do not say, This is alwayes known to the persons themselves concerned in this distribution. Many cry peace, peace when suddain destruction is at hand. These either think themselves regenerate when they are not, or else wilfully despise the consideration of what is required in them, that they may have peace, and so delude their own souls unto their ruine. And many that are truly born of God, yet know it not. They may for a season walk in darkness and have no light; Nor
2. That this is always known to others. It is not known unto Unregenerate men in respect of them that are so. For they know not really and substantially what it is to be so. Natural men perceive not the things of God; that is, spiritually, in their own light and nature, 2 Cor. 2. And as they cannot aright discern the things which put men into that condition, (for they are foolishness unto them,) so they cannot Judge aright of their persons in whom they are. And if they do at any time Judge aright nationally concerning any things or Persons, Yet they do not Judge so upon right grounds, nor with any Evidence in or unto themselves of what they do Judge. Wherefore Generally they Judge amiss of such persons; And because they make profession of somewhat which they find not in themselves, they Judge them Hypocrites, and false pretenders unto what is not. For those things which evince their Union with Christ, and which evidence their being born of God, they savour them not, nor can receive them. Nor is this always known unto, or discerned by them that are Regenerate. They may sometime with Peter think a Simon Magus to be a true believer; or with Eli an Hannah to be a daughter of Belial. Many Hypocrites