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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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4. The sinner, although he doth not know the secret intention of God, yet he 1doth know the gracious invitation of God; to leave his sins, and to believe in Christ, and to come into Covenant with him, and that he will show mercy to him. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon, Isa. 55. 7. I think that there is no sinner living under the Gospel, but he lives under an external call; the Covenant of grace is (in some measure) made known unto him, and the glorious riches of mercy and grace, and he receives many a summons to come into Christ, to believe, to accept of God to be his God, and to be one of his people; and also he knows upon what gracious terms God is contented to be his God: Now, because God is pleased in and by the Gospel, not only to reveal the Covenant of grace unto sinners, but also to treat indefinitely with sinners, and to offer mercy, and life, and salvation unto them, if they will come ⟨p. 112⟩[…] ⟨p. 113⟩[…] ⟨p. 112⟩in and accept of himself in Christ. Truly here is a very heartening, encouraging ground at the least, to pray him to be our God, and to make us to be his people.
4. The sinner, although he doth not know the secret intention of God, yet he 1doth know the gracious invitation of God; to leave his sinnes, and to believe in Christ, and to come into Covenant with him, and that he will shew mercy to him. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon, Isa. 55. 7. I think that there is no sinner living under the Gospel, but he lives under an external call; the Covenant of grace is (in some measure) made known unto him, and the glorious riches of mercy and grace, and he receives many a summons to come into Christ, to believe, to accept of God to be his God, and to be one of his people; and also he knows upon what gracious termes God is contented to be his God: Now, because God is pleased in and by the Gospel, not only to reveal the Covenant of grace unto sinners, but also to treate indefinitely with sinners, and to offer mercy, and life, and salvation unto them, if they will come