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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.
5. This Covenant is so framed, that there is still a strong foundation 1of hope and confidence for a poor sinner; and by this it appears that it is a well-ordered Covenant; here is a firm foundation laid.
5. This Covenant is so framed, that there is still a strong foundation 1of hope and confidence for a poor sinner; and by this it appears that it is a well-ordered Covenant; here is a firme foundation laid.
- 1It is so framed, that there is still a strong foundation of hope and confidence for a poor sinner. A foundation laid, For the admission of poor sinners. For the impetration of all the good a sinner needs.
1. For the admission of poor sinners; If a Christ and Mediator, if mercy in all the abundance of it, if free grace in all the glory of it, may be esteemed a fair foundation for hope and confidence, here every one of them stands ready to make way for the sinner, I will satisfy for all his sins, and make peace for him, saith Christ the Mediator; I will forgive and abundantly pardon all his sins, saith the merciful God; I will love him freely, and receive him graciously, saith the God of love and grace.
1. For the admission of poor sinners; If a Christ and Mediator, if mercy in all the abundance of it, if free grace in all the glory of it, may be esteemed a fair foundation for hope and confidence, here every one of them stands ready to make way for the sinner, I will satisfie for all his sinnes, and make peace for him, saith Christ the Mediator; I will forgive and abundantly pardon all his sinnes, saith the merciful God; I will love him freely, and receive him graciously, saith the God of love and grace.