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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.
The last Use from this discourse of the Covenant, shall be of direction, wh•t 1course any sinner should take that he may be brought into this Covenant of 2grace; The necessity and happiness whereof he hath heard so much.
THe last Use from this discourse of the Covenant, shall be of direction, wh•t 1course any sinner should take that he may be brought into this Covenant of 2grace; The necessity and happinesse whereof he hath heard so much.
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- 2Direction, what course a sinner should take to be brought into this Covenant.
The Directions which I would commend unto you for this, are these.
1. Go unto God, and beseech him to be your God, and to make you to be his people; 1for none can make God to be a God in Covenant unto him, but God himself; and none can take God to be his God in Covenant, but from the strength of God alone. Hence it is, that as to the first entrance into the Covenant, we (for our parts) are rather passive than active; and are rather Covenanted than Covenanting; God must make us to be his, before we can come to be his; yea he must make us willing to be his, before we can be willing to be so; and therefore (if you have observed it) not only the making of a new Covenant is settled and raised by the gracious Will of God, but the bringing of us into that Covenant, doth totally depend upon the gracious and powerful pleasure of the same God; I will be their God, and they shall be my people: As to bring in a sinner unto Christ, it is not sufficient that he is the effect of his purchase; but it is likewise required that he be the fruit of his conquest. Jesus Christ must by his Spirit rescue him out of the possession of sin and Satan; So to bring a sinner into Covenant with God, it is not enough that the sinner lies within the intention of grace, but it is moreover requisite, that God do put