A90296:26
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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3. To show that the bulk of this people are as yet in the wilderness, far from their resting place, like sheep upon the mountains, as once Israel, Jer. 50. 6. as yet wanting help by the Gospel.
3. To shew that the bulke of this people are as yet in the wildernesse, far from their resting place, like sheep upon the mountains, as once Israel, Jer. 50. 6. as yet wanting helpe by the Gospel.
The two first of these will be cleared, by discovering, how that all revolutions here below, especially every thing that concerns the dispensation of the Gospel and Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, are carried along, according to the eternally-fixed purpose of God, free in it self, taking neither rise, growth, cause nor occasion, from any thing amongst the sons of men.
The third, by laying open the helpless condition of Gospel-wanting souls, with some particular application, to all which my text directly leads me.
The third, by laying open the helpelesse condition of Gospel-wanting souls, with some particular application, to all which my text directly leads me.