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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. There is no sinner (for ought that I know, living under the Gospel) who 1can infallibly determine it, that God hath peremptorily excepted against him, and absolutely excluded him from the Covenant; (that is) That God will never be a God to him, nor will he ever make him to be one of his people: Although at the present a sinner may certainly know that he is out of the Covenant, and he is none of his people; yet he doth not know that God will never be his God, and that he shall never be one of Gods people; because, First, God reveals no such thing. Secondly, God doth reveal that some who are not his people, shall yet be his people. Thirdly, God ordinarily calls them to be his people who were not his people. Fourthly, The times and seasons of that call are unknown to the children of men; even these seasons also doth God reserve unto himself, and keep in his own hand and breast; therefore we should pray to God to bring us into Covenant; for who doth know what his purpose of grace may be, and what his thoughts of mercy are towards him?
3. There is no sinner (for ought that I know, living under the Gospel) who 1can infallibly determine it, that God hath peremptorily excepted against him, and absolutely excluded him from the Covenant; (that is) That God will never be a God to him, nor will he ever make him to be one of his people: Although at the present a sinner may certainly know that he is out of the Covenant, and he is none of his people; yet he doth not know that God will never be his God, and that he shall never be one of Gods people; because, First, God reveals no such thing. Secondly, God doth reveal that some who are not his people, shall yet be his people. Thirdly, God ordinarily calls them to be his people who were not his people. Fourthly, The times and seasons of that call are unknown to the children of men; even these seasons also doth God reserve unto himselfe, and keep in his own hand and breast; therefore we should pray to God to bring us into Covenant; for who doth know what his purpose of grace may be, and what his thoughts of mercy are towards him?
- 1No sinner living under the Gospel, can infallibly conclude he is excluded from the Covenant.