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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.
1. The demonstrations of the everlastingness of the Covenant, in respect of the 1people in Covenant; I shall present unto you four arguments to demonstrate that it is so.
1. The demonstrations of the everlastingnesse of the Covenant, in respect of the 1people in Covenant; I shall present unto you four arguments to demonstrate that it is so.
- 1The everlastingness of the Covenant demonstrated. From the consideration of God himself in relation to his people. The election of God.The everlastingnesse of the Covenant demonstrated. From the consideration of God himself in relation to his people. The election of God.
1. The first argument I will take from the consideration of God himself in relation unto his people, as (1. his election of them) 2. His love to them. 3. His power for them. 4. (His presence with them) 5. His promises to them.
1. The election of God, all the people in the Covenant are the elect of God; thine they were, and thou gavest them me, saith Christ, John 17. 6. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed, Acts 13. 48.