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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.
2. This Will is grounded on it sel•; it is a well-guided Will; it doth not depend 1on any thing in us, for then it might not be sure; but only the good pleasure of his Will which is most sure. Ezek. 36. 22. Not for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy Name-sake. Isa. 48. 11. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake will I do it. Deut. 7. 8. Because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the Oath which he had sworn unto your Fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand.
2. This Will is grounded on it sel•; it is a well-guided Will; it doth not depend 1on any thing in us, for then it might not be sure; but only the good pleasure of his Will which is most sure. Ezek. 36. 22. Not for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy Name-sake. Isa. 48. 11. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake will I do it. Deut. 7. 8. Because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the Oath which he had sworne unto your Fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand.
- 1It is grounded on it self.