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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.
1The Principles of this Assertion, are known, I shall therefore only touch upon them.
- 1The Power of Indwelling Sin.
First, The nature of Indwelling-sin, as it remains in the best of the Saints in this life, being a little considered, will evidence unto us, from whence it is that they are sometimes surprised, and plunged into the depths mentioned. For,
First, The nature of Indwelling-sin, as it remains in the best of the Saints in this life, being a little considered, will evidence unto us, from whence it is that they are sometimes surprized, and plunged into the depths mentioned. For,
First, Though the strength of every sin be weakened by Grace, yet the root of no sin, is in this life wholly taken away. Lust is like the stubborn Canaanites, who after the general conquest of the Land, would yet dwell in it still, Judg. 17. 12. Indeed when Israel grew strong they brought them under tribute, but they could not utterly expel them. The Kingdom and Rule belongs to Grace; and when it grows strong it brings sin much under; but it will not wholly be driven out. The Body of Death, is not utterly to be done away, but in and by the Death of the Body. In the flesh of the best Saints there dwelleth no ⟨p. 22⟩good thing, Rom. 7. 8. but the contrary is there; that is the root of all evil. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, as the Spirit lusteth against the flesh.