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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.
That is called sure,1
- 1A thing is called sure which is not a lye.
1. Which is not a lye, but a truth; In this respect the Covenant is a sure Covenant. It is no lye, Psal. 89. 35. I will not lye unto David, Hab. 2. 7. At the end the vision shall speak and not lye, Titus 1. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lye promised before the world began: It is a truth, Micah 7. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth unto Jacob. Psalm 132. 11. The Lord hath sworn in truth. Psalm 91. 4. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
1. Which is not a lye, but a truth; In this respect the Covenant is a sure Covenant. It is no lye, Psal. 89. 35. I will not lye unto David, Hab. 2. 7. At the end the vision shall speak and not lye, Titus 1. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lye promised before the world began: It is a truth, Micah 7. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth unto Jacob.