A90296:78
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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The sending of the Gospel to any one Nation,1 rather then another,2 as the means of life and salvation, is of the mere free grace and good pleasure of God.
The sending of the Gospel to any one Nation,1 rather then another,2 as the means of life and salvation, is of the meer free grace and good pleasure of God.
- 1Observ. 2.
- 2Q•i liberator, gra•iam diligat▪ qui non liberatur, debitu•a a•roscar. Aug. de bon▪ persev. cap. 8.Q•i liber•t•r, gra•iam diligat▪ qui non liberatur, debitu•a a•roscar. Aug. de bon▪ persev. cap. 8.
Now before I come to make out the absolute independency and freedom of this distinguishing mercy, I shall premise three things.