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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
S•l. Let me give answer to remove this fear and this vexation out of the heart of the troubled and doubting sinner.
1. A personal worthiness is not expected, nor imposed by God for admission into 1this Covenant; he never said to any sinner, If you be worthy of mercy, then I will show you mercy; and if you be worthy to enjoy me, then I will be your God. Never did this come into the thoughts of God to make a new Covenant upon terms of worthiness on our part; nor in any one place of Scripture hath God let fall such a passage, or such a heavy condition upon the sinner; for then no sinner could ever have had any hope of coming into this Covenant; sinfulness and unworthiness being necessarily inseparable.
1. A personal worthiness is not expected, nor imposed by God for admission into 1this Covenant; he never said to any sinner, If you be worthy of mercy, then I will shew you mercy; and if you be worthy to enjoy me, then I will be your God. Never did this come into the thoughts of God to make a new Covenant upon termes of worthinesse on our part; nor in any one place of Scripture hath God let fall such a passage, or such a heavy condition upon the sinner; for then no sinner could ever have had any hope of coming into this Covenant; sinfulnesse and unworthinesse being necessarily inseparable.
- 1A personal worthiness is not expected for admission into this Covenant.A personal worthinesse is not expected for admission into this Covenant.