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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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2. The Mediator of this Covenant; how full and rich is Jesus Christ? Of his 1fullness do all we receive, he fills all in all: The Godhead dwells bodily in him, in him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; there are the unsearchable riches of Christ; he is a perfect Redeemer, and is able to save to the utmost.
2. The Mediator of this Covenant; how full and rich is Jesus Christ? Of his 1fulnesse do all we receive, he fills all in all: The Godhead dwells bodily in him, in him are all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge; there are the unsearchable riches of Christ; he is a perfect Redeemer, and is able to save to the utmost.
- 1By the Mediator of this Covenant.
3. The Covenant it self: There is nothing left out, and there is nothing which can be added unto it; the wisdom and goodness of God have made it a 1complete store-house and treasury of all the good, and of all the help which all the children of God have, do, or ever shall need. Here is grace, and here is glory; here is all things pertaining to life, and all things pertaining to godliness; here is for the life present, and for the life which is to come; here are all sorts of comforts for the distressed, and all sorts of helps for the needy, and all sorts of defences for the exposed; here is the Sun, and the Shield, and exceeding great reward.
3. The Covenant it self: There is nothing left out, and there is nothing which can be added unto it; the wisdome and goodnesse of God have made it a 1