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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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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!
Objection. When we are perswading sinners to come into his Covenant, O no, say they! they are afraid, and dare not come as yet; but could they once finde some change wrought in their hearts, and some power over their sinnes, and some strength to walk better before God, then they would hearken and come!
Solution. But do you indeed understand your selves or this Covenant of grace, that you thus argue and dispute your selves out of an interest in the Covenant? I pray you whence doth grace come? out of what Spring doth it arise? would you be Gods unto your selves, before you take God to be your God? is your healing and salvation in your selves, or of your selves? In me is thy strength, saith God; Is it possible for the dead to quicken themselves? is not our change only from the Spirit of the Lord? and is not the new heart, and new spirit undertaken and promised in the Covenant? will you presume to give your selves, that which God only undertakes to give unto you?