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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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In mercy, in relation to this Covenant he is said to be rich in mercy, Ephes. 2. 4. God who is rich in mercy; nay, to have riches of mercy. Ephes. 3. 16. According to the riches •f his glory; nay, to show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus, Ephes. 2. 7. nay, to be exceeding abundant; 1 Tim. 1. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, abundant mercy, 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope; where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, Rom. 5. 20. Sin doth exceedingly abound by way of extension, and by way of intension, in practice, in degrees, and in deserts; but the mercy or grace of God, it doth over-abound; it is more than enough for the pardoning of the greatest sinners; yea, of all the sins of all his people; his mercy is like himself, infinite and unsearchable: And therefore the Church cries out, Who is a God like unto thee? that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage, &c.
In mercy, in relation to this Covenant he is said to be rich in mercy, Ephes. 2. 4. God who is rich in mercy; nay, to have riches of mercy. Ephes. 3. 16. According to the riches •f his glory; nay, to shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus, Ephes. 2. 7. nay, to be exceeding abundant; 1 Tim. 1. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, abundant mercy,