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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. We do disjoin the things in the Covenant which God hath ordered to come 1together; as when we will have the mercy of the Covenant, but not the repentance of the Covenant; and the hope in Christ, from faith in Christ; and the promised salvation without the promised holiness which leads unto that salvation.
2. We do disjoyne the things in the Covenant which God hath ordered to come 1together; as when we will have the mercy of the Covenant, but not the repentance of the Covenant; and the hope in Christ, from faith in Christ; and the promised salvation without the promised holinesse which leads unto that salvation.
- 1By disjoining those things God hath put together. By expecting the gifts of the Covenant, without the reasons of the Covenant. By limiting God in the dispensations of his Covenant.By disjoyning those things God hath put together. By expecting the gifts of the Covenant, without the reasons of the Covenant. By limiting God in the dispensations of his Covenant.
3. We do expect the gifts of the Covenant, without the reasons of the Covenant; upon the account of our goodness, and not upon the account of Gods graciousness.
3. We do expect the gifts of the Covenant, without the reasons of the Covenant; upon the account of our goodnesse, and not upon the account of Gods graciousnesse.