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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A little clearing of the words will make way for observations.
1. For the manner of the delivery of this message, it was by vision: of all the ways that God used of old, to reveal himself unto any in extraordinary manner, which were sundry and various, Heb. 1. 1. there was no one so frequent, as this of vision: wherein this did properly consist, and whereby distinguished from other ways, of the discovery of the secrets of the Lord, I shall not now discuss: in general, visions are revelations of the mind of the Lord, concerning some hidden things present or future, and not otherwise to be known: and they were of two sorts;
1. For the manner of the delivery of this message, it was by vision: of all the wayes that God used of old, to reveal himself unto any in extraordinary manner, which were sundry and various, Heb. 1. 1. there was no one so frequent, as this of vision: wherein this did properly consist, and whereby distinguished from other wayes, of the discovery of the secrets of the Lord, I shall not now discusse: in generall, visions are revelations of the minde of the Lord, concerning some hidden things present or future, and not otherwise to be known: and they were of two sorts;