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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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4. A fourth is Faith; Faith is a receiving grace; therefore believing is styled receiving; To as many as received him, he gave this dignity to be th• Sons of God, even to them •hat believe on him. Faith receives Christ, and receives mercy, and receives love, and receives righteousness, and receives blessings, and receives all the gifts of God. Though God hath all to give, yet you have no hand to receive, until you get faith.
4. A fourth is Faith; Faith is a receiving grace; therefore believing is stiled receiving; To as many as received him, he gave this dignity to be th• Sonnes of God, even to them •hat believe on him. Faith receives Christ, and receives mercy, and receives love, and receives righteousnesse, and receives blessings, and receives all the gifts of God. Though God hath all to give, yet you have no hand to receive, untill you get faith.
3. Is the Covenant a giving Covenant? Is it such a Covenant wherein the Lord undertakes to give all the good mentioned therein? This then yields 1manifold comfort to the people of God, who are in Covenant with him.
- 1Comfort to the people of God. Hence they may conclude.
1. If God undertakes to give all, then certainly he undertakes to find all good for us; If he undertakes to give a Christ, he must find out that