A90296:42
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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Now the several advancements of all these ways in dignity and preeminence, according as they clearly make out, ⟨p. 5⟩intellectual verity, or according to the honour and exaltation of that whereof apparition is made,1 is too fruitless a speculation for this days exercise.
Now the severall advancements of all these wayes in dignity and preeminence, according as they clearly make out, ⟨p. 5⟩intellectuall verity, or according to the honour and exaltation of that whereof apparition is made,1 is too fruitlesse a speculation for this daies exercise.
- 1Vid. Aquin. 2. 2 q. 174. Art. 3, 4 Scot. in dist. tert.
Our vision is of the later sort, accompanied with a sensible appearance, and is called [Greek or Hebrew]; there be two words in the new Testament signifying vision, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], coming from different verbs, but both signifying to see: some distinguish them, and say, that [Greek or Hebrew] is a vision, [Greek or Hebrew], an appearance to a man awake; [Greek or Hebrew], an appearance to a man asleep: called sometimes a dream, Job 33. 15. like that which was made to Joseph, Mat. 2. 19. but this distinction will not hold: our Saviour calling that vision, which his Disciples had at his transfiguration, when doubtless they were waking, [Greek or Hebrew], Mat. 17. 9