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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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2. Consider the per•ons taken now into Covenant, in their former respectiveness of state and actions towards God; The Apostle saith, That whiles we were 1yet enemies, Christ dyed for us; And when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, Rom. 5. 8, 10. Surely mercy shown to enemies, must needs be free mercy; and to receive enemies into favour, this must be gracious favour; yet to do this to enemies even in thei• hostility, for God to take his enemies into his hands of mercy, and become a singular friend to them, even in the time of their raging and fighting against him; this must needs be of ⟨p. 125⟩grace. It was remarkable favour in David, to spare the life of Saul his enemies much more in God, not only to spare the lives of sinners and enemies, but to give them their souls and his Christ, and his mercy, and his salvation. You read of those in Acts 2. 23. they were men who had by wicked hands crucified and slain the Lord Jesus; and verse 13. at the present were ••••king at the Apostles, as if they had been a company of drunkards; These men are full of new wine; Yet these men, and at this time, and in this posture, God laid hold on by his grace, and convinced them, and humbled them, and gave them faith, and brought them into this Covenant with himself, as you may see from verse 37. to 47. The like you read of Saul, when he was raging and waxing ••d, and breathing out persecutions against Christ, and against the Church of Christ; Being in this woeful wretched posture, the Lord takes hold of him, and left him not until he had brought him into this blessed Covenant of grace and mercy.
2. Consider the per•ons taken now into Covenant, in their former respectivenesse of state and actions towards God; The Apostle saith, That whiles we were 1