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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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Certainly the Covenant 'twixt God and his people must hold and continue for ever, it must last for ever, where there is such a love of God to his people, viz. such a love to them as to Christ himself; such a love from which nothing shall be able to separate; such a love as depends only upon his own love, and which is so tender, and so affectionate, and is everlasting. If a Covenant made only by love, and if a people brought into that Covenant only by love, and loved at such a rate and height, even to the giving of the Son of God to save them; I say, if yet such a Covenant may be broken, and if such a people may be cast off, then is the truest and faithfullest love, and bond never to be trusted more, neither can be sure, if this love be not sure.
Certainly the Covenant 'twixt God and his people must hold and continue for ever, it must last for ever, where there is such a love of God to his people, viz. such a love to them as to Christ himself; such a love from which nothing shall be able to separate; such a love as depends only upon his own love, and which is so tender, and so affectionate, and is everlasting. If a Covenant made only by love, and if a people brought into that Covenant only by love, and loved at such a rate and height, even to the giving of the Sonne of God to save them; I say, if yet such a Covenant may be broken, and if such a people may be cast off, then is the truest and faithfullest love, and bond never to be trusted more, neither can be sure, if this love be not sure.
3. The power of God in relation to his people in Covenant, which is a securing 1and preserving power.
- 1The power of God, which is A securing power.