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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.
Consider the persons taken or brought into this Covenant either absolutely in 1themselves, or respectively in their dealing towards God, or comparatively with others; As to all these considerations, this Covenant is a very gracious and free Covenant.
- 1The persons taken into the Covenant considered,
1. Consider the persons now taken into Covenant, what they were is themselves. 1The Prophet tells you what they were, in Ezekiel 16. 3. Thy birth and thy Nativity was of the Lord of Canaan; thy Father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. Ver. 4. Thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou wasted in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. Ver. 5. No eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion on thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born. Ver. 6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Ver. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, be hold thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. Yea, and the Apostle tells us what persons they were, whom yet God took into Covenant.