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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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5. Apply your selves unto the Ordinances of Christ▪ which are the means to work all these things in you, and particularly this faith which is so necessary, and so immediate 1to our admission into the Covenant. Ephes. 1. 13. In whom you also trusted after that you heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation; the Gospel ⟨p. 115⟩is that Ordinance by which God makes known the Covenant of grace, and by which faith is wrought to bring us into Christ, and by him into Covenant with God, and by which our faith is so enlarged and confirmed, that at length we come to know that God is indeed our God in Covenant.
- 1Apply your selves to the Ordinances of Christ.
6. I will add one direction more as an help to bring us into the Covenant, 1and taking of God to be our God; and that is a serious meditation of God himself, and of the nature of this Covenant of grace.
6. I will adde one direction more as an help to bring us into the Covenant, 1and taking of God to be our God; and that is a serious meditation of God himself, and of the nature of this Covenant of grace.
- 1Seriously meditate,