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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.
These and the like Considerations attending the actings of indwelling sin, do oftentimes entangle the soul in making a Judgement of it self, and leave it in the dark as to its state and condition.
These and the like Considerations attending the actings of indwelling sin, do oftentimes intangle the soul in making a Judgement of it self, and leave it in the dark as to its state and condition.
A few things shall be offered unto this Objection also.
1. The sensible powerful actings of indwelling sin, are not inconsistent with a state of Grace, Gal. 5. 17. There are in the same person contrary principles, the flesh and the spirit; these are contrary; And there are contrary actings from these principles; The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; and these actings are described to be great vigorous in other places. Lust wars against our souls, Jam. 4. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 1 l. Now to war is not to make faint or gentle Opposition to be slighted and contemned; but it is to go out with great strength, to use craft, subtlety and force, so as to put the whole issue to a hazard. So these lusts war; such are their actings in and against the soul. And therefore saith the Apostle, You cannot do the things that you would; see Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, 17. In this conflict indeed the understanding is left unconquered; it condemns and disapproves of the evil led unto; and the will is not subdued; it would not do the evil that is pressed upon it, and there is an hatred or aversation remaining in the Affections unto sin; but yet notwithstanding sin rebels, fights, tumultuates, and leads captive. This Objection then may receive this speedy Answer. Powerful actings and workings, universal endless strugglings of ind welling sin, seducing to all that is evil, putting it self forth to the disturbance and dissettlement of all that is good, is no sufficient ground to conclude a state of Alienation from God; see for this the other Treatise before mentioned at large.