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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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2. On our part; your hearts cannot be brought to hold up a Covenant with God, and yet to hold up a Covenant with your sins; you cannot love God, and that which is contrary to God; you cannot love sin, and that which is contrary to sin at the same time; for if you love the Lord, you will hate sin; and if you love sin, you will hate the Lord.
2. On our part; your hearts cannot be brought to hold up a Covenant with God, and yet to hold up a Covenant with your sinnes; you cannot love God, and that which is contrary to God; you cannot love sinne, and that which is contrary to sinne at the same time; for if you love the Lord, you will hate sinne; and if you love sinne, you will hate the Lord.
3. On the Covenants part; the Covenant of God is to change the sinful heart, it is to subdue iniquity, it is to cleanse us from all our uncleannesses, it is to make us an holy people •nto the Lord; so that of necessity you must resolve on it to break off your Covenant with sin, if you will have God to be your God in Covenant, 2 Cor. 6. 17. Come one from among them, and be ye separated saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, ver. 18. and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty: Mark this place, it shows expressly the way of coming into the Covenant; you must not make agreement with darkness, nor with Idols, you must separate from them, you must have nothing to do with any uncleanness, (that is,) you must resolve never to join your selves to any sin, never to love or serve it; and then saith God, I will receive you; what's that? that is, then I will be your God, I will take you into Covenant, I will own you for mine, I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters: Are you sure that you will be so? yea, for thus saith the Lord Almighty, Ezek. 11. 18. They shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof, verse 19. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, &c. verse 20. That they may walk in my Statutes, and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Therefore examine your hearts what sin lies there, which makes a breach, which keeps up enmity 'twixt you and God, and put it far away, &c.