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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. There is all in and from him to encourage you to come into Covenant 1with him; for he doth express himself to be a merciful God towards sinners; to be a gracious God to the sinners that come to him, to be a tender God easily moved at the tears and cries of those who would be his people; to be a willing God to accept of you, and to close with you; and therefore he first makes known this Covenant, and he first offers to treat with you about this Covenant, and he makes the terms of agreement as fair as grace it self can frame them; and he out of his own cost provided and sent Jesus Christ to be both the Messenger of the Covenant, and the Mediator of the Covenant; and besides all this, he affords unto you the Gospel to work faith in you, that so you may become the people of his Covenant; and moreover, he makes promises unto you of every thing which belongs to the making of a people to be the people of his Covenant; yea, and he promiseth his own Spirit to them that ask him, by whose mighty operation we come indeed to be his people. Truly a serious meditation of all this, might conduce much to persuade our hearts to come in unto him, and take him for our God in Covenant.
2. There is all in and from him to encourage you to come into Covenant 1with him; for he doth expresse himself to be a merciful God towards sinners; to be a gracious God to the sinners that come to him, to be a tender God easily moved at the tears and cryes of those who would be his people; to be a willing God to accept of you, and to close with you; and therefore he first makes known this Covenant, and he first offers to treat with you about this Covenant, and he makes the termes of agreement as fair as grace it self can frame them; and he out of his own cost provided and sent Jesus Christ to be both the Messenger of the Covenant, and the Mediator of the Covenant; and besides all this, he affords unto you the Gospel to work faith in you, that so you may become the people of his Covenant; and moreover, he makes promises unto you of every thing which belongs to the making of a people to be the people of his Covenant; yea, and he promiseth his own Spirit to them that ask him, by whose mighty operation we come indeed to be his people. Truly a serious meditation of all this, might conduce much to perswade our hearts to come in unto him, and take him for our God in Covenant.