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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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3. Consider whence the making of this Covenant did arise; Did it arise from 1any goodness in any man? O no, All the world was found guilty before God, and every mouth was stopped by reason of sin, Rom. 3. 19. Or did it arise from any desire or entreaty of man? not at all; but as man first brought in sin and death, so God first thought of mercy and life. He is found of them that sought him not, Isa. 65. 1. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self, but in •• is thy help, Hosea 13. 9. The Lord set his love upon you to take you into Covenant, &c. because he loved you, Deut. 7. 7, 8.
3. Consider whence the making of this Covenant did arise; Did it arise from 1any goodnesse in any man? O no, All the world was found guilty before God, and every mouth was stopped by reason of sinne, Rom. 3. 19. Or did it arise from any desire or entreaty of man? not at all; but as man first brought in sinne and death, so God first thought of mercy and life. He is found of them that sought him not, Isa. 65. 1. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self, but in •• is thy help, Hosea 13. 9. The Lord set his love upon you to take you into Covenant, &c. because he loved you, Deut. 7. 7, 8.
- 1Whence the making of this Covenant did arise.