A90296:117
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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To discover unto us the freedom of that effectual grace,1 which is dispensed towards the elect, under the with the preaching of the word: for if the sending of the outward means be of free undeserved love, surely the working of the spirit under that dispensation, for the saving of souls, is no less free: for, who hath made us differ from others, and what have we that we have not received? 2O that God should say unto us in our blood, live; that he should say unto us in our blood, live; that he should breath upon us when we were as dry bones, dead in trespasses and sins; let us remember, I beseech you, the frame of our hearts, and the temper of our spirits,3 in the da•es wherein we know not God, and his goodness, but went on in a swift course of rebellion;4 Can none of you look back upon any particular days or nights, 5and say,6 Ah Lord, that thou shouldest be so patient and so full of ⟨p. 33⟩forbearance, as not to sent me to hell at such an instant; but oh Lord, that thou shouldest go further, and blot out mine iniquities for thine own sake, when I made thee serve with my sins; Lord, what shall I say it is? It is the free grace of my God: what expression transcendeth that, I know not.
To discover unto us the freedom of that effectuall grace,1 which is dispensed towards the elect, under the with the preaching of the word: for if the sending of the outward means be of free underserved love, surely the working of the spirit under that dispensatior, for the saving of souls, is no lesse free: for, who hath made us differ from others, and what have we that we have not received?