A90296:81
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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Secondly,1 That sins against the Covenant of works, which men are under, 2before the Gospel comes unto them, cannot have any general demerit, that the means of life and salvation by free grace should not be imparted to them. It is true, ⟨p. 19⟩all Nations have deserved to be turned into hell, and a people that have had the truth, and detained it in ungodliness, deserve to be deprived of it. The first, by virtue of the sanction of the first broken Covenant: the other, by sinning against that, which they had of the second; but that men in a fallen condition, and not able to rise, should hereby deserve not to be helped up, needeth some distinction to clear it.
Secondly,1 That sins against the Covenant of works, which men are und•r, 2before the Gospel comes unto them, cannot have any generall demerit, that the means of life and salvation by free grace should not be imparted to them. It is true, ⟨p. 19⟩all Nations have deserved to be turned into hell, and a people that have had the truth, and detained it in ungodlinesse, deserve to be deprived of it. The first, by vertue of the sanction of the first broken Covenant: the other, by sinning against that, which they had of the second; but that men in a fallen condition, and not able to rise, should hereby deserve not to be helped up, needeth some distinction to clear it.
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- 2Act. 14. 16, •7. •h. •7. 0, 3.