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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.
Beloved,1
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1. It is impossible to begin the Covenant with a reflexive act. Can any woman 1know such a man to be her husband, until she hath taken him to be her husband? Would ye build the top of the house before you have laid the foundation? Reflexive acts are the last acts; never are they the first acts in the Covenant; Nay, it were a very delusion and falsehood, to know that God is your God, before you take him to be so: he is not your God, neither are you his people, until you consent to take him for your God.
1. It is impossible to begin the Covenant with a reflexive act. Can any woman 1know such a man to be her husband, untill she hath taken him to be her husband? Would ye build the top of the house before you have laid the foundation? Reflexive acts are the last acts; never are they the first acts in the Covenant; Nay, it were a very delusion and falsehood, to know that God is your God, before you take him to be so: he is not your God, neither are you his people, untill you consent to take him for your God.
- 1It is impossible to begin the Covenant with a reflexive act.
2. The only way to know your interest in the Covenant, is to accept of the Covenant: