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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.
There is in it,
1. The presence of what is necessary to the certain performance of the Covenant. 1There are two things necessary thereunto. 1. The power of God. 2. The Will of God; if God be able, and if God will perform his Covenant, it is then sure. Now let us consider both these in reference to the Covenant.
1. The presence of what is necessary to the certain performance of the Covenant. 1There are two things necessary thereunto. 1. The power of God. 2. The Will of God; if God be able, and if God will performe his Covenant, it is then sure. Now let us consider both these in reference to the Covenant.
- 1The presence of what is necessary to the performance of it; as,
1. The power of God; power is necessary to give a being unto all undertakings; 1If a poor man promiseth much, yet there is no certainty of it, because though he be very willing, yet he is very unable; the engagement exceeds his stock of ability. But God is able to perform all the good promised to his people in the Covenant. Rom. 4. 21. Abraham was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able also to perform.
1. The power of God; power is necessary to give a being unto all undertakings;