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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. The Author of this Covenant. 2. Or the Mediator of this Covenant. 3. Or the Covenant it self.1
- 1It appears, by The Author of this Covenant.
1. The Author of this Covenant, who therein sets out all his gracious fullness; here you shall find him full of love, and therefore the Apostle calls his love, a great love, Ephes. 2. 4. and an exalted love; God commendeth his love towards us, in that whiles we were yet sinners, Christ dyed for us, Rom. 5. 8. And Saint John calls it a wonderful love; Behold what manner of love the Father ha•h bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! 1 John 3. 1. ⟨p. 119⟩Nay, Christ himself calls it an unexpressible love. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. John. 3. 16. And the Apostle repeats the love of God as the character and pattern of all love; Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for us.
1. The Author of this Covenant, who therein sets out all his gracious fulness; here you shall finde him full of love, and therefore the Apostle calls his love, a great love, Ephes. 2. 4. and an exalted love; God commendeth his love towards us, in that whiles we were yet sinners, Christ dyed for us,