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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
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2. Certainty is a ground of peace; this Covenant is styled a Covenant of peace, 1because it settles, and quiets, and establisheth our hearts; yea, and the Covenant breeds perfect peace; it stills all the fears, and doubts, and thoughts of heart, and therefore it must needs be a sure Covenant; and being so, we have strong consolation, Heb. 6. 18.
2. Certainty is a ground of peace; this Covenant is stiled a Covenant of peace, 1because it settles, and quiets, and establisheth our hearts; yea, and the Covenant breeds perfect peace; it stills all the fears, and doubts, and thoughts of heart, and therefore it must needs be a sure Covenant; and being so, we have strong consolation, Heb. 6. 18.
- 1Certainty is a ground of peace
Two things are necessary to the settling of peace in the soul; either 1. An actual fruition. 2. A certain expectation. Were the Covenant uncertain (it may be God will be my God, it may be he will not be my God; it may be he will pardon my sins, it may be he will not pardon my sins; it may be he will save my soul, and it may be he will not save my soul) this uncertainty on Gods part, would leave an uncertainty on our part; and either of these uncertainties, would certainly leave us to an uncertain, distracted, unsettled conscience; O I can never be sure that God will be mine, that mercy shall be mine, &c.