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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. For the preservation and continuation of them in this Covenant; for the 1Lord hath sworn the everlastingness of it, and he gives all effectually to hold up and maintain an everlasting union and communion 'twixt himself and his people, and keeps them by his own power through faith unto salvation, and charges none other but Jesus Christ himself to look to them, and to keep them in his Name; and he undertakes this charge, and will fully execute it, and faithfully; and therefore as he conquers all the enemies of his servants, (sin and Satan, and the world) so he furnisheth them with all graces accompanying salvation, and still strengthens those graces until they come to receive the end of their faith, even the salvation of their souls; Use 1 and surely this Covenant must needs be well-ordered, which opens a way to receive in poor sinners, and which hath reasons within it self, and 2upon which the received sinner may with confidence plead for all good, and which will keep them for ever fast with God.
3. For the preservation and continuation of them in this Covenant; for the 1Lord hath sworn the everlastingnesse of it, and he gives all effectually to hold up and maintain an everlasting union and communion 'twixt himself and his people, and keeps them by his own power through faith unto salvation, and charges none other but Jesus Christ himself to look to them, and to keep them in his Name; and he undertakes this charge, and will fully execute it, and faithfully; and therefore as he conquers all the enemies of his servants, (sinne and Satan, and the world) so he furnisheth them with all graces accompaning salvation, and still strengthens those graces untill they come to receive the end of their faith, even the salvation of their souls; Ʋse 1 and surely this Covenant must needs be well-ordered, which opens a way to receive in poor sinners, and which hath reasons within it self, and 2upon which the received sinner may with confidence plead for all good, and which will keep them for ever fast with God.
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