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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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3. To say all: The qualities of grace are not the necessary antecedents for entrance 1into, but they are the gracious fruits and consequents of the Covenant. When you are brought into Covenant, then are all graces brought into your hearts; then if you seek unto your God, and trust on him, he will send forth his Spirit into your hearts.
3. To say all: The qualities of grace are not the necessary an•ecedents for entrance 1into, but they are the gracious fruits and consequents of the Covenant. When you are brought into Covenant, then are all graces brought into your hearts; then if you seek unto your God, and trust on him, he will send forth his Spirit into your hearts.
- 1The qualities of grace, and the fruits and consequents of the Covenant.
5. The knowledge of God to be our God in Covenant, i• not prerequired before 1we take God to be our God in Covenant. I confess some knowledge of God is ⟨p. 109⟩prerequired, as this, That God is willing to take a sinner into Covenant; till 2this be laid in, the sinner will never close with God; but to know that this God is my God, this is neither prerequired, not is it possibl• for any sinner to attain unto this, before he doth take God to be his God in Covenant. Y•t is this an ordinary perplexity and hinderance with many broken-hearted sinners; O if we could but be assured that God were our God, then we would venture to come into Covenant with him! and did we know our selves to be his people, then we would close with him!