A90296:52
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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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.
1. The rule whereby all things are dispensed here below, especially in the making out of the means of grace, is the determinate will and counsel of God: stay not in Asia, go not into Bithynia, but come to Macedonia, even so, O Father, for so, &c.
1. The rule whereby all things are dispensed here below, especially in the making out of the means of grace, is the determinate will and counsell of God: stay not in Asia, go not into Bithynia, but come to Macedonia, even so, O Father, for so, &c.
2. The sending of the Gospel to any nation, place or persons rather then others, as the means of life and salvation, is of the mere free grace and good pleasure of God. Stay not in Asia, &c.
2. The sending of the Gospel to any nation, place or persons rather then others, as the means of life and salvation, is of the meer free grace and good pleasure of God. Stay not in Asia, &c.
3. No men in the world want help, like them that want the Gospel. Come and help us.
Begin we with the first of these,