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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
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3. That God doth love his people with a most gracious love, with a love 1kindled only from love. Deut. 7. 7, 8. The Lord did set his love upon you, because ⟨p. 151⟩the Lord loved you. Hosea 14. 4. I will love them freely, that is, upon the sole account and reason of my own love unto them; yea, his love was the only impulsive cause why he entered into Covenant with them, and by oath engaged himself unto them; Ezek. 16. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love, and I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
3. That God doth love his people with a most gracious love, with a love 1kindled only from love. Deut. 7. 7, 8. The Lord did set his love upon you, because ⟨p. 151⟩the Lord loved you. Hosea 14. 4. I will love them freely, that is, upon the sole account and reason of my own love unto them; yea, his love was the only impulsive cause why he entred into Covenant with them, and by oath engaged himself unto them; Ezek. 16. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love, and I sware unto thee, and entred into Covenant with thee saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
- 1With a most gracious love.