A90296:96
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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In the first way, how do we find the Jews, putting far from them the word of life, and rejecting the counsel of God at its first entrance, calling for night at the rising of the Sun? hence, Acts 13. 41. Paul concludes his Sermon to them, with, Hear, ye despisers, wonder and perish: and ver. 46. it was necessary the word should be preached to them, but seeing they judged themselves unworthy, they were forsaken: and ver. 51. they shake off the dust of their feet against them, a common symbol in those days, of the highest indignation and deepest curse: The like stubbornness we find in them, Acts 28. whereupon the Apostle wholly turned himself to the Gentiles, ver. 28. How many Nations of Europe, at the beginning of the reformation, rejected the Gospel of God, and procured Christ, with the Gadarenes, to depart as soon as he was extred, will be found at the last day, written with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus, that suffered amongst them?
In the first way, how do we finde the Jews, putting far from them the word of life, and rejecting the counsel of God at its first entrance, calling for night at the rising of the Sun? hence, Acts 13. 41. Paul concludes his Sermon to them, with, Hear, ye despisers, wonder and perish: and ver. 46. it was necessary the word should be preached to them, but seeing they judged themselves unworthy, they were forsaken: and ver. 51. they shake off the dust of their feet against them, a common symbol in those daies, of the highest indignation and deepest curse: The like stubbornes we finde in them, Acts 28. whereupon the Apostle wholly turned himself to the Gentiles, ver. 28. How many Nations of Europe, at the beginning of the reformation, rejected the Gospel of God, and procured Christ, with the Gadarens, to depart as soon as he was extred, will be found at the last day, written with the bloud of the Martyrs of Jesus, that suffered amongst them?