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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.
Sol. There are six things to demonstrate or clear it. Viz.
1. This Covenant depends upon the counsel of God, and the purpose of God, and love of God, immutable and sure grounds; these are (as it were) the springs and the foundations of the Covenant of grace, viz. Gods love unto us, his counsel wisely and deliberately contriving for us, and his purpose resolving and intending everlasting good unto us.
Now every one of these is sure and certain; The love of God is unchangeable; wh•m he loves once, he loves for ever; I have loved thee with an everlasting love, Jer. 31. 3.
The counsel of God is immutable, wherein (speaking of this Covenant, Heb. 6. 17.) God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel (confirmed it by an oath.)