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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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3. Sometimes that is styled New, which is excellent and very necessary, John 113. 34. A New Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; this Commandment is a new Commandment; that is, it is a rare, an excellent, a necessary Commandment; so Revel. 2. 17. To him that overcomes I will give a New name; that is, an excellent name, to be one of the sons of God, which is called a dignity, an excellent privilege, John 1. 12. In this respect also is the Covenant of grace styled New, it is an excellent Covenant, and very 2necessary.
3. Sometimes that is stiled New, which is excellent and very necessary, John 113. 34. A New Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; this Commandment is a new Commandment; that is, it is a rare, an excellent, a necessary Commandment; so Revel. 2. 17. To him that overcomes I will give a New name; that is, an excellent name, to be one of the sonnes of God, which is called a dignity, an excellent priviledge, John 1. 12. In this respect also is the Covenant of grace stiled New, it is an excellent Covenant, and very 2necessary.
- 1It is an excellent Covenant.
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