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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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Use 2 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people a sure Covenant? why 1may not this be a great encouragement unto troubled and distressed souls, to come into Covenant with God? not to stand off through fears and disputes (but I shall not be accepted, but I shall not find mercy) but to come in with faith and confidence.
Ʋse 2 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people a sure Covenant? why 1may not this be a great encouragement unto troubled and distressed souls, to come into Covenant with God? not to stand off through feares and disputes (but I shall not be accepted, but I shall not finde mercy) but to come in with faith and confidence.
- 1An encouragement to troubled souls to come into Covenant.
There are five things which may in a special manner, affect and encourage 1poor broken-hearted sinners to venture in, and to close with God in his Covenant.
- 1Five encouragements from
1. One is the thoughts of God towards them his thoughts are thoughts of mercy and peace towards you, Jer. 29. 11.