A90296:91
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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I deny not but God may, and perhaps sometimes doth reveal himself to some in a peculiar and extraordinary manner. Whereunto tends that story in Aquinas, of a Corps taken up in the days of Constantine and Irene, with a plate of gold, and this inscription in it, Christus nascetur ex virgine, ego credo in illum, O sol sub Irenae & Constantini temporibus iterum me videbis. 1But that this should be regular unto men living, [Greek or Hebrew], in Justin Martyrs phrase, or using their naturals aright, (which is impossible they should, the right use of naturals depending on supernaturals) is wide from the word.
I deny not but God may, and perhaps sometimes doth reveal himself to some in a peculiar and extraordinary manner. Whereunto tends that story in Aquinas, of a Corps taken up in the daies of Constantine and Irene, with a plate of gold, and this inscription in it, Christus nascetur ex virgine, ego credo in illum, O sol sub Irenae & Constantini temporibus iterum me videbis. 1But that this should be regular unto men living, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in Justin Martyrs phrase, or using their naturals aright, (which is impossible they should, the right use of naturals depending on supernaturals) is wide from the word.
- 1V•sq. in q. 21. •1. d•sp. •6. Aqui• 2, 2. q • art. 7. [Greek or Hebrew] Justin. Apo•, 2V•sq. in q. 21. •1. d•sp. •6. Aqui• 2, 2. q • art. 7. Justin. Apo, 2