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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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And there are two reasons, why this Covenant is an altogether giving Covenant.
1. One is our universal brokenness, and impotency, and insufficiency; our sinful 1fall hath so ship-wracked and ruined us, that we have nothing at all left us; we are naked, and poor, and miserable, Rev. 3. 17. Without strength, Rom. 5. 6. Not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves, 2 Cor. 3. 5. What hast thou that thou hast not received? I Cor. 4. 7. Such a broken vessel is the sinner, such a self-undoing, and destitute creatures; like the Prodigal who spent all, and had neither bread nor raiment, nor shoes, nor any thing; and therefore his father must provide all, and give all; he must give him housing, and he must give him raiment, and he must give him shoes for his feet, and he must give him meat to eat, and wine to drink. Where the creature is universally miserable, and utterly impotent, there must be nothing but giving; Mercy must give all, or the sinner is undone.
1. One is our universal brokennesse, and impotency, and insufficiency; our sinful 1fall hath so ship-wrack't and ruined us, that we have nothing at all left us; we are naked, and poor, and miserable, Rev. 3. 17. Without strength, Rom. 5. 6. Not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves,