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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.
This is the Covenant which God makes with us, even a New Covenant, a Covenant of life upon new terms, a Covenant which hath a new foundation, a Covenant which hath new promises, a Covenant which hath a new original, and spring, a Covenant which hath a new way of claim and title, a Covenant which gives new hopes, and a Covenant which hath new seals and confirmations.
This is the Covenant which God makes with us, even a New Covenant, a Covenant of life upon new termes, a Covenant which hath a new foundation, a Covenant which hath new promises, a Covenant which hath a new original, and spring, a Covenant which hath a new way of claime and title, a Covenant which gives new hopes, and a Covenant which hath new seals and confirmations.
Use 1 Surely there is infinite reason for us poor and miserable sinners to bless the Lord even for this that he hath made all things New, and especially for making a new 1Covenant; had the Lord utterly left us, when we left him; had he held us to that first Covenant of works, and proceeded against us for the breach of that Covenant, we had every one of us for ever been condemned and lost; but he was pleased to make a new Covenant with us, where mercy is to be found for sinners, and a Redeemer for transgressors, and a Mediator 'twixt himself and us, and our lives may yet be found in his grace and love, and Christ, and all this springing from his own grace and love! What should oblige our hearts, and raise our thankfulness if this doth not?
Ʋse 1 Surely there is infinite reason for us poor and miserable sinners to bless the Lord even for this that he hath made all things New, and especially for making a new 1Covenant; had the Lord utterly left us, when we left him; had he held us to that first Covenant of works, and proceeded against us for the breach of that Covenant, we had every one of us for ever been condemned and lost; but he was pleased to make a new Covenant with us, where mercy is to be found for sinners, and a Redeemer for transgressors, and a Mediator 'twixt himself and us, and our lives may yet be found in his grace and love, and Christ, and all this springing from his own grace and love! What should oblige our hearts, and raise our thankfulnesse if this doth not?