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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.
1Secondly, Men may come to an assured Satisfactory persuasion that themselves are regenerate, and that such, as is so far infallible, as that it will not deceive them, when it is brought unto the trial. For there are many Duties whose performance in faith unto the glory of God, and the Edification of our own souls, doth depend on this persuasion and Conviction. As,
1Secondly, Men may come to an assured Satisfactory perswasion that themselves are regenerate, and that such, as is so far insallible, as that it will not deceive them, when it is brought unto the tryal. For there are many Duties whose performance in faith unto the glory of God, and the Edification of our own souls, doth depend on this perswasion and Conviction. As,
- 1Believers may know themselves to be born of God.
1. A due sense of our Relation unto God, and an answerable comportment of our spirits and hearts towards him. He that is born again, is born of God. He is begotten of God by the immortal seed of the Word. Without a persuasion hereof how can a man on grounds of faith carry himself towards God as his Father? and how great a part of our Obedience towards ⟨p. 341⟩him and communion with him depends hereon, we all know. If men fluctuate all their days in this matter, if they come to no settlement in it, no comfortable persuasion of it, they scarce ever act any genuine childlike acts of Love or Delight towards God, which exceedingly impeacheth their whole Obedience.
1. A due sense of our Relation unto God, and an answerable comportment of our spirits and hearts towards him. He that is born again, is born of God. He is begotten of God by the immortal seed of the Word. Without a perswasion hereof how can a man on grounds of faith carry himself towards God as his Father? and how great a part of our Obedience towards