A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners ... 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 ... toleration and petitions about these things
A 1646 London sermon by the Puritan preacher John Owen, printed by G.M. for P. Stephens, addressed to the House of Commons on a day of public humiliation and bundled with a short defence of church government and toleration. The four pictures are all decorative printer's ornaments: a large letter T with interlaced foliage, a framed letter O enclosing a fleur-de-lis motif, a pair of heraldic-looking beasts in rectangular panels, and a scrolled fleuron band with a central fleur-de-lis. A designer could draw on their dense, rough-cut woodblock vines, rope-like scrollwork and symmetrical frames for historical borders and initials.
