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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. V.
Isaiah 55. 3. And I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
I Have discoursed of the Covenant of grace as it stands in opposition to the Covenant of works; and likewise of the vital nature of it, the very marrow and sum of it, in those expressions, I will be to you a God, and you shall be to me a people.
I Have discoursed of the Covenant of grace as it stands in opposition to the Covenant of works; and likewise of the vital nature of it, the very marrow and summe of it, in those expressions, I will be to you a God, and you shall be to me a people.
I am now in the third place to open unto you this Covenant in the adjuncts or properties of it, which do (as it were) blazon and enamel this Covenant, or set it out in beautiful colours to the eyes of us poor and distressed sinners; as God appeared unto Moses in his glory, when he made himself known unto him in his gracious Attributes; so this Covenant appears in