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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
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4. Though a sinner finds in himself a wan• •f holy qualities, and many vile 1corruptions not yet mortified, yet he may come and be accepted into Covenant with God: If a poor sinner be willing to have his heart changed, though as yet he finds not that change: and if he be willing to have his sins mortified and subdued, though as yet he doth not find them so: this sinner may come, and desire to be admitted into Covenant, and God doth not except against him.
4. Though a sinner finds in himself a wan• •f holy qualities, and many vile 1corruptions not yet mortified, yet he may come and be accepted into Covenant with God: If a poor sinner be willing to have his heart changed, though as yet he findes not that change: and if he be willing to have his sinnes mortified and subdued, though as yet he doth not finde them so: this sinner may come, and desire to be admitted into Covenant, and God doth not except against him.
- 1A sinner may come and be accepted into Covenant, though he find in himself a want of holy qualities, and many vile corruptions.A sinner may come and be accepted into Covenant, though he find in himself a want of holy qualit•es, and many vile corruptions.
Objection. When we are persuading sinners to come into his Covenant, O no, say they! they are afraid, and dare not come as yet; but could they once find some change wrought in their hearts, and some power over their sins, and some strength to walk better before God, then they would hearken and come!