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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.
Beloved, though nothing out of the Covenant is sure, yet all things in the Covenant is sure; not only sure certitudine veritatis in a way of ttuth, but also sure certitudine haereditatis in a way of performance; not only sure quoad causam & ratione pacti as to the cause and the nature of Gods Covenant, but sure also quoad effectum & ratione facti as to the effect and fruition of them; you shall have all the mercy, and all the grace, and all the glory which God promiseth. You may have a mans promise, and a mans Bond, and yet you may not be sure, for the man may die, or his estate may fail and break; but it is not so here in Gods Covenant with you; he never dies, and he never breaks (he is an eternal infiniteness and all-sufficiency) and his Word abides the same for ever; yea, one may be an heir to a great estate, yet he may not be sure to enjoy that great estate; either death, or miscarriages, or violence may deprive him of the right; but the people of God are sure heirs of all the promised good in the Covenant, and they shall not fail to enjoy all; they have the promises of all good, and they have promises that God will assuredly perform all his promises, and they have his Oath annexed unto those promises, Heb. 6. 13. when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself. Ver. 14. Saying, Surely, blessing, I w•ll bless thee; as if he should say, Surely, surely as I am God I will bless thee; now what shall we say to these things? how good is our God! how rich is his Covenant! how blessed are the people who have the Lord to be their God in Covenant! The Covenant is good, and the Covenant is full, and the Covenant is sure; Then if the Covenant be a Covenant of blessings, and blessedness, you who are in Covenant are blessed, and shall be surely blessed.
Beloved, though nothing out of the Covenant is sure, yet all things in the Covenant is sure; not only sure certitudine veritatis in a way of ttuth, but also sure certitudine haereditatis in a way of performance; not only sure quoad causam & ratione pacti as to the cause and the nature of Gods Covenant, but sure also quoad effectum & ratione facti as to the effect and fruition of them; you shall have all the mercy, and all the grace, and all the glory which God promiseth. You may have a mans promise, and a mans Bond, and yet you may not be sure, for the man may die, or his estate may faile and break; but it is not so here in Gods Covenant with you; he never dies, and he never breaks (he is an eternal infinitenesse and al-sufficiency) and his Word abides the same for ever; yea, one may be an heire to a great estate, yet he may not be sure to enjoy that great estate; either death, or miscarriages, or violence may deprive him of the right; but the people of God are sure heires of all the promised good in the Covenant, and they shall not fail to enjoy all; they have the promises of all good, and they have promises that God will assuredly performe all his promises, and they have his Oath annexed unto those promises,