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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 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.
Now there are three things in election.
1. It is a gracious decree not depending on any forinsecal causes. 2. It is an unalterable decree, not raised on any mutable causes. 3. It is an effectual decree, letting forth and communicating all the things which will infallibly bring unto salvation; Rom. 8. 30. Whom he did predestinate; which if it be so, then certainly the Covenant is everlasting, forasmuch as everlasting life, and all that conduceth thereunto is unalterably decreed in Gods election, and from that effectually communicated unto all in Covenant.