A90296:44
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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2.1 For the second or time of this vision, I need say no more, then what before I intimated.
- 1A Lapide, Sanctius in locum, &c.
3. The bringer of the message, [Greek or Hebrew], he was a man of Macedonia in a vision: the Lord made an appearance unto him,1 as of a man of Macedonia; discovering even to his bodily eyes a man, and to his mind, that he was to be conceived as a man of Macedonia: this was, say some,2 an Angel, the Tutelar Angel of the place, say the Popish expositors, or the genius of the place, according to the phrase of the Heathens, of whom they learned their demonology, perhaps him, or his Antagonist, that not long before appeared to Brutus all Philippi: but these are pleasing dreams: us it may suffice, that it was the appearance of a man, the mind of Paul being enlightened to apprehend him as a man of Macedonia: and that with infallible assurance, such as usually accompanieth ⟨p. 6⟩divine revelations, in them to whom they are made, as Jer. 23. 28. for upon it, Luke affirmeth, ver. 10. they assuredly concluded, that the Lord called them into Macedonia.
3. The bringer of the message, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he was a man of Macedonia in a vision: the Lord made an appearance unto him,1 as of a man of Macedonia; discovering even to his bodily eyes a man, and to his minde, that he was to be conceived as a man of Macedonia: this was, say some,