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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.
CHAP. IV. The proper nature of the Covenant.
The proper nature of the Covenant of grace, in the absolute consideration thereof; this I shall lay down in this description of it.
THe proper nature of the Covenant of grace, in the absolute consideration thereof; this I shall lay down in this description of it.
The Covenant of grace is a new compact or agreement, which 1God made with sinful man, out of his own mere mercy and grace, wherein he promiseth that he will be our God, and that we shall be his people; and undertakes to give everlasting life, and all that conduceth thereunto, unto all who believe in Christ.
The Covenant of grace is a new compact or agreement, which 1God made with sinful man, out of his own meer mercy and grace, wherein he promiseth that he will be our God, and that we shall be his people; and undertakes to give everlasting life, and all that conduceth thereunto, unto all who believe in Christ.
- 1The Covenant described.