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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.
Quest. Now if you should demand why God makes a Covenant which is thus 1holy?
- 1Why it must be a holy Covenant. Because it must be suitable to his nature.Why it must be a holy Covenant. Because it must be sutable to his nature.
Sol. I answer: first, because his Covenant must be suitable to his own nature, the which it were not, if it were not holy. His nature is holiness it self, and he will never set up a Covenant to make us unlike himself.
Sol. I answer: first, because his Covenant must be sutable to his own nature, the which it were not, if it were not holy. His nature is holinesse it self, and he will never set up a Covenant to make us unlike himself.
2. He sets up a Covenant to show and communicate his love unto us, and 1therefore it must be a holy Covenant, to purge away our sinfulness, which he is of purer eyes than to behold, and which his soul hates.
2. He sets up a Covenant to shew and communicate his love unto us, and 1therefore it must be a holy Covenant, to purge away our sinfulnesse, which he is of purer eyes than to behold, and which his soul hates.
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