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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.
This Covenant is gracious or free in three respects. 1. For the constitution of 1it. 2. For the reception into it. 3. For the donations from it.
- 1Free in three respects.
1. For the exceeding framing out, or constituting of this Covenant, when 1was it? and with whom was it? and whence was it? All these will plainly demonstrate, that this Covenant is a very free and gracious Covenant.
1. For the exceeding framing out, or constituting of this Covenant, when 1was it? and with whom was it? and whence was it? All these will plainely demonstrate, that this Covenant is a very free and gracious Covenant.
- 1For the constitution of it, in respect of
1. Consider the time when it was made and set forth; why immediately upon 1the fall; then when man-kind had sinned and transgressed the first Covenant; then when God might have glorified his justice upon all sinners, yet then was the time that he promised this Covenant; The seed of the woman shall break, ⟨p. 124⟩