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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.
SECT. VIII.
8. The eighth property of this Covenant is this, It is the last Covenant, it 1may be called the last Covenant in a twofold respect.
8. THe eighth property of this Covenant is this, It is the last Covenant, it 1may be called the last Covenant in a twofold respect.
- 1It is the last Covenant. It succeeds a former Covenant.
1. Because it succeeds a former Covenant, and removes it; See Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith a new Covenant, he hath made the first old; now that which decayeth, and waxeth old, is ready to vanish away.
1. Because it succeds a former Covenant, and removes it; See Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith a new Covenant, he hath made the first old; now that which decayeth, and waxeth old, is ready to vanish away.