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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.
4. This Covenant is confirmed by the blood of Jesus Christ, which is called 1the blood of the everlasting Covenant, Heb. 13. 20. Matth. 26. 28. This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the Remission of sins. Heb. 9. 15. For this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death for the Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. Ver. 17. A Testament is of force after men are dead.
4. This Covenant is confirmed by the blood of Jesus Christ, which is called 1the blood of the everlasting Covenant, Heb. 13. 20. Matth. 26. 28. This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the Remission of sinnes. Heb. 9. 15. For this cause he is the Mediatour of the New Testament, that by means of death for the Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. Ver. 17. A Testament is of force after men are dead.
- 1It is confirmed by the blood of Christ.
It is called a Covenant, and a Testament.