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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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Objection. But some may say, God is not free in doing of his people ⟨p. 126⟩good, because he hath by promise bound himself to do them good.
Solution. I answer. 1. It was the freeness of his grace to make all those promises. 2. Though he binds himself in promises to do us good, yet he doth not accomplish those promises upon the reason of our goodness or deserts, but upon the account of his own mercifulness, and goodness, and graciousness.
Solution. I answer. 1. It was the freenesse of his grace to make all those promises. 2. Though he bindes himself in promises to do us good, yet he doth not accomplish those promises upon the reason of our goodnesse or deserts, but upon the account of his own mercifulnesse, and goodnesse, and graciousnesse.
Obj. But he promiseth many things conditionally, and lets them out upon such and such conditions, and herefore not freely.