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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. › Verses 1, 2 › 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.
Fourthly, There is not in the Covenant of Grace, Provision made of ordinary and abiding consolation, for any under the guilt of great sins, or sins greatly aggravated, which they fall into by a neglect of using and abiding in the forementioned conditions of abounding actual Grace. Sins there are, which either because in their own nature they wound and waste conscience, or in their effects break forth into scandal, causing the name of God and the Gospel to be evil spoken of, or in some of their circumstances, are full of unkindness against God, do deprive the soul of its wonted consolation. How, by what means, on what account such sins come to terrify conscience, to break the bones, to darken the soul, and to cast it into inextricable depths, notwithstanding the relief that is provided of pardon in the blood of Christ, I shall not now declare; that they will do so, and that Consolation is not of equal extent with safety, we know. Hence God assumes it to himself as an act of mere Sovereign Grace, to speak peace and refreshment unto the souls of his Saints in their depths of sin entanglements, Isa. 57. 18, 19. And indeed if the Lord had not thus provided, that great provocations, should stand in need of special reliefs, it might justly be feared, that the negligence of Believers, might possibly bring forth much bitter fruit.
Fourthly, There is not in the Covenant of Grace, Provision made of ordinary and abiding consolation, for any under the guilt of great sins, or sins greatly aggravated, which they fall into by a neglect of using and abiding in the forementioned conditions of abounding actual Grace. Sins there are, which either because in their own nature they wound and waste conscience, or in their effects break forth into scandal, causing the name of God and the Gospel to be evil spoken of, or in some of their circumstances, are full of unkindness against God, do deprive the soul of its wonted consolation. How, by what means, on what account such sins come to terrifie conscience, to break the bones, to darken the soul, and to cast it into inextricable depths, notwithstanding the relief that is provided of pardon in the blood of Christ, I shall not now declare; that they will do so, and that Consolation is not of equal extent with safety, we know. Hence God assumes it to himself as an act of meer Soveraign Grace, to speak peace and refreshment unto the souls of his Saints in their depths of sin entanglements, Isa. 57. 18, 19