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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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5. This Covenant doth exceedingly encourage holiness; Blessed are the pure 1in heart, for they shall see God, Matth. 5. 8. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Psal. 119. 1. Being now become the servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, Rom. 6. 22. God is glorious in holiness, Exod. 15. 11. The Saints are the excellent on the earth, Psal. 16. 3. Gather my Saints together unto me, those that have made a Covenant with me by sacrifice, Psal. 50. 5. This honour have all his Saints, Psal. 149. 9. He will keep the feet of his Saints, 1 Sam. 2. 9. The Lord forsaketh not his Saints, Psal, 37. 28. He preserveth the souls of his Saints, Psal. 97. 10. He delivereth them out of the hands of the wicked, ibid. The Saints shall judge the world, 1 Cor. 6. 8. When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, 2 Thes. 1. 10.
5. This Covenant doth exceedingly encourage holinesse; Blessed are the pure 1in heart, for they shall see God, Matth. 5. 8. Blessed are the undefiled in the way,