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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.
1. Sometimes that is styled New, which succeeds another; in Exod. 1. 8. there 1arose a New King; in Acts 7. 18. this New King is called another King: In this respect this Covenant is a New Covenant, it succeeds another Covenant, a former Covenant it follows the Covenant of works.
1. Sometimes that is stiled New, which succeeds another; in Exod. 1. 8. there 1arose a New King; in Acts 7. 18. this New King is called another King: In this respect this Covenant is a New Covenant, it succeeds another Covenant, a former Covenan• it follows the Covenant of works.
- 1The several exceptions of the word New in Scripture. It succeeds another Covenant.
Quest. It may be argued Why the Covenant of works should be first, and the Covenant of grace next?
Sol. We may be satisfied concerning this order: First, from the pleasure of 1