A90296:143
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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2. In the time of prosperity, by our fierce contentions about mint and cummin, whilst the weightier things of the Gospel have been undervalued, languishing about unprofitable questions, &c. but I shall not touch this wound lest it bleed.
2. In the time of prosperity, by our fierce contentions about mint and cummin, whilest the weightier things of the Gospel have been undervalued, languishing about unprofitable questions, &c. but I shall not touch this wound lest it bleed.
For exhortation,1 that every one of us, in whose hand there is any thing, would set in, for the help of those parts of this Island, that as yet sit in darkness, yea in the shadow of death, and have none to hold out the bread of life to their fainting souls. Doth not Wales cry, and the North cry, yea and the West cry, Come and help us? We are yet in a worse bondage, then any by your means we have been delivered from: if you leave us thus, all your protection will but yield us a more free and jovial passage to the chambers of death. Ah, little do the inhabitants of Goshen know, whilst they are contending about the bounds of their pasture, what darkness there is in other places of the Land; How their poor starved souls would be glad of the crumbs that fall from our tables: ô that God would stir up the hearts,
For exhortation,1 that every one of us, in whose hand there is any thing, would set in, for the help of those parts of this Island, that as yet sit in darknesse, yea in the shadow of death, and have none to hold out the bread of life to their fainting souls. Doth not Wales cry, and the North cry, yea and the West cry, Come and help us? We are yet in a worse bondage, then any by your means we have been delivered from: if you leave us thus, all your protection will but yeeld us a more free and joviall passage to the chambers of death. Ah, little do the inhabitants of Goshen know, whil'st they are contending about the bounds of their pasture, what darknesse there is in other places of the Land; How their poor starved souls would be glad of the crums that fall from our tables: ô that God would stir up the hearts,