A90296:20
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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In the 6.1 verse. the planters of the Gospel are forbid to preach the word in Asia, (that part of it peculiarly so called,) and ver. 7. assaying to go with the same message into Bithynia, they are crossed by the spirit, in their attempts: but in my text, are called to a place, on which their thoughts were not at all fixed: which calling, and which forbidding, were both subservient to his free determination, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will, Ephes. 1. 11.
In the 6.1 verse. the planters of the Gospel are forbid to preach the word in Asia, (that part of it peculiarly so called,) and ver. 7. assaying to go with the same message into Bithynia, they are crossed by the spirit, in their attempts: but in my text, are called to a place, on which their thoughts were not at all fixed: which calling, and which forbidding, were both subservient to his free determination, who worketh all things according to the counsell of his own will, Ephes. 1. 11.
- 1Eo ipso tempore quo ad omnes gentes praedicatio evangelij mittebatur, quaedam loca Apostolis adire prohibebatur ab eo, qui vult omnes homines salvos fieri. Prosp. Ep ad Rufin [Greek or Hebrew] Hom.Eo ipso tempore quo ad omnes gentes praedicatio evangelij mittebatur, quaedam loca Apostolis adire prohibebatur ab eo, qui vult omnes homines salvos fieri. Prosp. Ep ad Rufin 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Hom.
And no doubt but in the dispensation of the Gospel, throughout the world, unto this day, there is the like conformity to be found, to the pattern of Gods eternal decrees: though to the messengers not made known aforehand by revelation, but discovered in the effects, by the mighty working of providence.