A90296:57
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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Nor yet thirdly,1 to clear up what a straight line runs through all the darkness, confusion and disorder in the world, how absolutely, in respect of the first fountain, and last tendance of things, there is neither deformity, fault, nor deviation, every thing that is amiss, consisting in the transgression of a moral rule, which is the sin of the creature, the first cause being free: as he that causeth a lame man to go, is the cause of his going, but not of his going lame: or the sun exhaling a smell from the kennel, is the cause of the smell, but not of its noisomeness, for from a garden his beams raise a sweet savour: nothing is amiss but what goeth off from its own rule, which he cannot do, who will do all his pleasure, and knows no other rule. But omitting these things, I shall tie my discourse to that which I chiefly aimed at in my proposition, viz. to discover how the great variety which we see in the dispensation of the means of grace,2 proceedeth from, and is regulated by some eternal purpose of God, unfolded in his Word. To make out this, we must lay down three things.
Nor yet thirdly,1 to clear up what a straight line runs thorow all the darknes, confusion and disorder in the world, how absolutely, in respect of the first fountain, and last tendance of things, there is neither deformity, fault, nor deviation, every thing that is amisse, consisting in the transgression of a morall rule, which is the sin of the creature, the first cause being free: as he that causeth a lame man to goe, is the cause of his going, but not of his going lame: or the sun exhaling a smell from the kennell, is the cause of the smell, but not of its noisomnesse, for from a garden his beams raise a sweet savour: nothing is amisse but what goeth off from its own rule, which he cannot do, who will do all his pleasure, and knows no other rule. But omitting these things, I shall tie my discourse to that which I cheifly aimed at in my proposition, viz. to discover how the great variety which we see in the dispensation of the means of grace,2 proceedeth from, and is regulated by some eternall purpose of God, unfolded in his Word. To make out this, we must lay down three things.