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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53721	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.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1669 (1669)	Wing O794; ESTC R26853	334,249	417

〈◊〉 will multiply to pardon He hath forgiveness with him to outdo all the multiplied sins of any that turn unto him and seek for it But this is very hard very difficult for us to apprehend This is not the way and manner of men We deal not thus with profligate Offenders against us True saith God But your wayes are not my wayes I do not act in this matter like unto you nor as you are accustomed to do How then shall we apprehend it how shall we conceive of it You can never do it by your Reason or Imaginations For as the Heavens is above the Earth so are my thoughts in this matter above your thoughts This is an expression to set out the largest and most unconceivable distance that may be The creation will afford no more significant expression or representation of it The Heavens are inconceivably distant from the Earth and inconceivably glorious above it So are the Thoughts of God they are not only distant from ours but have a Glory in them also that we cannot rise up unto For the most part when we come to deal with God about forgiveness we hang in every bryar of disputing quarelsom unbelief This or that Circumstance or Aggravation this or that unparalleld particular bereaves us of our Confidence Want of a due Consideration of him with whom we have to do measuring him by that line of our own imaginations bringing him down unto our Thoughts and our Wayes is the cause of all our disquietments Because we find it hard to forgive our pence we think he cannot forgive Talents But he hath provided to obviate such thoughts in us Hos. 11. 9. I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I AM GOD AND NOT MAN Our satisfaction in this matter is to be taken from his Nature where he a man or as the Sons of men it were impossible that upon such and so many provocations he should turn away from the fierceness of his Anger But he is God This gives an Infiniteness and an inconceivable boundlesness to the forgiveness that is with him and exalts it above all our thoughts and wayes This is to be lamented Presumption which turns God into an Idol ascribes unto that Idol a greater largeness in forgiveness than faith is able to rise up unto when it deals with him as a God of infinite Excellencies and Perfections The reasons of it I confess are obvious But this is certain no presumption can falsly imagine that forgiveness to it self from the Idol of its heart as faith may in the way of God find in him and obtain from him For Secondly God engageth his infinite Excellencies to demonstrate the Greatness and Boundlesness of his forgiveness He proposeth them unto our Considerations to convince us that we shall find pardon with him suitable and answerable unto them See Isa. 40. 27 28 29 30 31. Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel my way is hid from the Lord and my judgement is passed over from my God Hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the Everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fail but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not be faint The matter in question is whether Acceptance with God which is only by forgiveness is to be obtained or no This sinful Jacob either despairs of or at least desponds about But saith God My thoughts are not as your thoughts in this matter And what course doth he take to convince them of their mistake therein What Argument doth he make use of to free them from their unbelief and to rebuke their fears Plainly he calls them to the consideration of himself both Who and What he is with whom they had to do That they might expect acceptance and forgiveness such as did become him Minding them of his power his Immensity his Infinite Wisdom his Unchangableness all the Excellencies and Properties of his nature he demands of them whether they have not just ground to expect Forgiveness and Grace above all their thoughts and apprehensions because answering the infinite largeness of his heart from whence it doth proceed And Moses manageth this plea for the forgiveness of that people under an high provocation and a most severe threatning of their destruction thereon Numb 14. 17 18. He pleads for pardon in such a way and manner as may answer the great and glorious Properties of the Nature of God and which would manifest an infiniteness of Power and Al-sufficiency to be in him This I say is an encouragement in general unto Believers We have as I hope upon unquestionable grounds evinced that there is forgiveness with God which is the hinge on which turneth the issue of our eternal condition Now this is like himself such as becomes him that answers the infinite perfections of his nature that is exercised and given forth by him as God We are apt to narrow and streighten it by our unbelief and to render it unbecoming of him He less dishonours God or as little who being wholly under the power of the Law believes that there is no forgiveness with him none to be obtained from him or doth not believe it that so it is or is so to be obtained for which he hath the voice and sentence of the Law to countenance him then those who being convinced of the principles and grounds of it before mentioned and of the Truth of the Testimony given unto it do yet by streigthning and narrowing of it render it unworthy of him whose Excellencies are all infinite and whose wayes on that account are incomprehensible If then we resolve to rreat with God about this matter which is the business now in hand let us do it as it becomes his Greatness that is indeed as the wants of our souls do require Let us not entangle our own Spirits by limiting his Grace The Father of the Child possessed with a Devil being in a great Agony when he came to our Saviour cryes out If thou canst do any thing have compassion on us and help us Mark 9. 22. He would fain be delivered but the matter was so great that he questioned whether the Lord Christ had either Compassion or Power enough for his relief And what did he obtain hereby nothing but the retarding of the Cure of his Child for a season For our Saviour holds him off untill he had instructed him in this matter saith he v. 23. If thou canst believe all things are possible unto him that believeth Mistake not if thy Child be not cured it is not for

promise and learn to measure things not according to the present state and apprehensions of their mind but according unto what God hath declared concerning them And there are sundry Excellencies in the promises when hoped in or trusted in that tend unto the establishment of the soul in this great duty of waiting As 1. That Grace in them that is the Good Will of God in Christ for help relief satisfaction pardon and salvation is suited unto all particular conditions and wants of the soul. As Light ariseth from the Sun and is diffused in the beams thereof to the especial use of all creatures enabled by a visive faculty to make use of it so cometh Grace forth from the Eternal Good Will of God in Christ and is diffused by the promises with a blessed contemporation unto the conditions and wants of all Believers There can nothing fall out between God and any soul but there is grace suited unto it in one promise or another as clearly and evidently as if it were given unto him particularly and immediately And this they find by experience who at any time are enabled to mix effectually a promise with faith 2. The Word of promise hath a wonderfull mysterious especial impression of God upon it He doth by it secretly and ineffably communicate himself unto Believers When God appeared in a dream unto Jacob he awaked and said God is in this place and I knew it not He knew God was every where but an intimation of his especial presence surprized him So is a soul surprized when God opens himself and his Grace in a promise unto him It cryes out God is here and I knew it not Such a near approach of God in his Grace it finds as is accompanied with a refreshing surprizal 3. There is an especial Engagement of the Veracity and Truth of God in every promise Grace and Truth are the two ingredients of an Evangelical promise the matter and form whereof they do consist I cannot now stay to shew where in this especial engagement of Truth in the promise doth consist Besides it is a thing known and confessed But it hath an especial influence to support the soul when hoped in in its duty of waiting For that hope can never make ashamed or leave the soul unto disappointments which stayes its self on Divine Veracity under a special engagement And this is that duty which the Psalmist engageth himself in and unto the performance of as the only way to obtain a comfortable interest in that forgiveness which is with God and all the gracious effects thereof And in the handling hereof as we have declared its nature and necessity so we have the Psalmists directions for its practice unto persons in the like condition with him for the attaining of the end by him aimed at so that it needs no further Application That which remains of the Psalm is the Address which he makes unto others with the encouragement which he gives them to steer the same course with himself and this he doth in the two last verses which to compleat the Exposition of the whole Psalm I shall briefly explain and pass through as having already dispatched what I principally aimed at Verse 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous Redemption 8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities I shall proceed in the opening of these words according unto the method already insisted on First the meaning of the principal words shall be declared then the sense and importance of the whole Thirdly the Relation that they have unto the condition of the soul expressed in the Psalm must be manifested from all which Observations will arise for our Instruction and Directions in the like cases wherein we are or may be concerned Let Israel hope in the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hope Israel in Jehovah Trust or expect the same word with that vers 5. In his word do I hope properly to expect to look for which includes hope and adds some further degree of the souls acting towards God it is an earnest looking after the thing hoped for expecta ad Dominum hope in him and look up to him For with the Lord quia or quoniam because seeing that with the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mercy the verb substantive as usual is omitted which we supply there is Mercy Grace Bounty Goodness Good-will This word is often joyned with another discovering its importance and that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goodness or Mercy and Truth These are as it were constituent parts of Gods Promises It is of Goodness Grace Bounty to promise any undue mercy And it is of Truth or Faithfulness to make good what is so promised The LXX commonly render this word by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is pardoning mercy as it is every where used in the New Testament And with him is plenteous Redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with him as before speaking unto God v. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with thee there is the meaning of which expression hath been opened at large Redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to redeem the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Redemption This word is often used for a proper Redemption such as is made by the intervention of a price and not a meer Assertion unto liberty by power which is sometimes also called Redemption Thus it is said of the money that the first born of the children of Israel which were above the number of the Levites were redeemed with that Moses took 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Redemption that is the Redemption money the price of their Redemption Numb 3. 49. And Psal. 49. 8. The Redemption of mens souls is precious it cost a great price The Redemption then that is with God relates unto a Price Goodness or mercy with respect unto a price becomes Redemption that is actively the cause or means of it What that price is see Matth. 20. 20. 1 Pet. 1. 18. Plenteous Redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 multa copi sa much abundant plenteous It is used both for Quantity and Quality much in quantity or plenteous abundant and in Quality that is precious excellent And it is applied in a good and bad sense so it is said of our sins Ezek. 9. 6. our sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are increased or multiplied or are great many in number and hainous in their nature or quality And in the other sense it is applied unto the mercy of God whereby they are removed it is great or plenteous it is excellent or precious V. 8. And he that is the Lord Jehovah he with whom is plenteous Redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall redeem or make them partakers of that Redemption that is with him He shall redeem Israel that is those who hope and trust in him From all his iniquities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his