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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 5, 6 › 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.
3. The Righteousness of God is also to be considered in this matter. That name in the Scripture is used to denote many Excellencies of God, all which are reducible unto the infinite Rectitude of his Nature. I intend that at present which is called Justitia Regiminis, his Righteousness in Rule or Government. This is remembered by Abraham, Gen. 18. 25. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And by the Apostle; Is God unjust who taketh vengeance? God forbid. This our souls are to own in all the works of God. They are all righteous; all his who will do no iniquity, whose Throne is established in Judgement. However they may be dreadful, grievous, and seem severe, yet they are all righteous: It is true, he will sometimes rise up and do strange acts, strange works, Isa. 28. 21. Such as he will not do often nor ordinarily; such as shall fill the world with dread and amazement: He will answer his people in terrible things? But yet all shall be in Righteousness. And to complain of that which is righteous, to repine against it, is the highest unrighteousness that may be. Faith then fixing the soul on the Righteousness of God, is an effectual means to humble it under his mighty hand: And to help us herein we may consider,
3. The Righteousness of God is also to be considered in this matter. That name in the Scripture is used to denote many Excellencies of God, all which are reducible unto the infinite Rectitude of his Nature. I intend that at present which is called Justitia Regiminis, his Righteousness in Rule or Government. This is remembred by Abraham, Gen. 18. 25. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And by the Apostle; Is God unjust who taketh vengeance? God forbid. This our souls are to own in all the works of God. They are all righteous; all his who will do no iniquity, whose Throne is established in Judgement. However they may be dreadfull, grievous, and seem severe, yet they are all righteous: It is true, he will sometimes rise up and do strange acts, strange works, Isa. 28. 21. Such as he will not do often nor ordinarily; such as shall fill the world with dread and amazement: He will answer his people in terrible things? But yet all shall be in Righteousness. And to complain of that which is righteous, to repine against it, is the highest unrighteousness that may be. Faith then fixing the soul on the Righteousness of God, is an effectual means to humble it under his mighty hand: And to help us herein we may consider,