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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.
Secondly, Some Lusts or branches of original corruption, do obtain in some persons such advantages, either from Nature, Custom, Employment, Society, or the like Circumstances, that they become like the Canaanites that had iron Chariots; it is a very difficult thing to subdue them. Well it is, if War be maintained constantly against them, for they will almost always be in actual Rebellion.
Secondly, Some Lusts or branches of original corruption, do obtain in some persons such advantages, either from Nature, Custom, Employment, Society, or the like Circumstances, that they become like the Canaanites that had iron Chariots; it is a very difficult thing to subdue them. Well it is, if War be maintained constantly against them, for they will almost alwayes be in actual Rebellion.
Thirdly, Indwelling-Sin though weakened, retaineth all its properties; the properties of a thing follow its nature. Where the nature of any thing is, there are all its natural properties. What are these properties of Indwelling Sin, I should here declare, but that I have handled the whole power and efficacy, the nature and properties of it, in a Treatise to that only purpose. In brief they are such, as it is no wonder, that some Believers are by them cast into depths; but it is indeed, that any do escape them. But hereof the Reader may see at large my Discourse on this particular subject.
Thirdly, Indwelling-Sin though weakned, retaineth all its properties; the properties of a thing follow its nature. Where the nature of any thing is, there are all its natural properties. What are these properties of Indwelling Sin, I should here declare, but that I have handled the whole power and efficacy, the nature and properties of it, in a Treatise to that only purpose. In brief they are such, as it is no wonder, that some Believers are by them cast into depths; but it is indeed, that any do escape them. But hereof the Reader may see at large my Discourse on this particular subject.