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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.
Is the Covenant of grace an ordered Covenant, and a well-ordered Covenant? then certainly the wisdom of God is in it, as well as the goodness of God: the goodness of God is in it, as to all the mercies and blessings wherewith this Covenant is furnished; and the wisdom of God is in it, as to the placing and disposing, and dispensing of all those mercies and blessings: Therefore take heed of displacing that order which God hath set in his Covenant; we do displace the order of the Covenant, and consequently do presume to correct the wisdom of God, when
Is the Covenant of grace an ordered Covenant, and a well-ordered Covenant? then certainly the wisdome of God is in it, as well as the goodness of God: the goodnesse of God is in it, as to all the mercies and blessings wherewith this Covenant is furnished; and the wisdome of God is in it, as to the placing and disposing, and dispensing of all those mercies and blessings: Therefore take heed of displacing that order which God hath set in his Covenant; we do displace the order of the Covenant, and consequently do presume to correct the wisdome of God, when
1. We do apply and interest our selves in the benefits of the Covenant; before we do apply God himself, and interest our selves in him; to lay hold on his mercies before we lay hold on himself; to appropriate the purchase of Christ before ⟨p. 131⟩we do embrace and appropriate Christ himself; this is to disorder and displace the Covenant, which first propounds God himself, and Christ himself to be received, and then the portion of all good things promised after this.
2. We do disjoin the things in the Covenant which God hath ordered to come