A90296:107
A vision of unchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved…A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved…
A vision of unchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners: wherein Gods uncontrollable eternal purpose, in sending, and continuing the gospel unto this nation, in the middest of oppositions and contingencies, is discovered: his distinguishing mercy, in this great work, exalted, asserted, against opposers, repiners: in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, April. 29. being the day of public humiliation. Whereunto is annexed, a short defensative about church-government, (with a country essay for the practice of church-government there) toleration and petitions about these things. / By John Owen, minister of the gospel at Coggeshall in Essex.A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners: wherein Gods uncontrollable eternall purpose, in sending, and continuing the gospel unto this nation, in the middest of oppositions and contingencies, is discovered: his distinguishing mercy, in this great work, exalted, asserted, against opposers, repiners: in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, April. 29. being the day of publike humiliation. Whereunto is annexed, a short defensative about church-government, (with a countrey essay for the practice of church-government there) toleration and petitions about these things. / By Iohn Owen, minister of the gospel at Coggeshall in Essex.
London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens, 1646
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Secondly,1 They were such as raked up the ashes of the ancient worthies, whose spirits God stirred up to reform his Church, and rendered them contemptible before all, especially those of England, 2the most whereof died in giving their witness against the blind figment of the real presence, and ⟨p. 30⟩that abominable blasphemy of the cursed mass; 3in especial, how did England, heretofore termed Ass, turn Ape to the Pope,4 and furnished it with all things necessary for an unbloody sacrifice, ready to set up the abomination of desolation, and close with the god Maozim, who hath all their peculiar devotion at Rome?
Secondly,1 They were such as raked up the ashes of the ancient worthies, whose spirits God stirred up to reform his Church, and rendred them contemptible before all, especially those of England, 2the most whereof died in giving their witnesse against the blinde figment of the reall presence, and ⟨p. 30⟩that abominable blasphemy of the cursed masse; 3in especiall, how did England, heretofore termed Asse, turn Ape to the Pope,4 and furnished it with all things necessary for an unbloody sacrifice, ready to set up the abomination of desolation, and close with the god Maozim, who hath all their peculiar devotion at Rome?
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