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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.
There are divers things considerable in this description, which I desire 1to open.
- 1And opened.
1. This Covenant is a new compact and agreement betwixt God and man; There was another agreement before this; a Covenant of another nature, and upon other 1terms and considerations, and for another end: But man stood not to that agreement, he did voluntarily transgress it, and thereby deprived himself of all the benefits promised in that Covenant, and fell under that death and curse, which God had threatened for the breach and transgression of it: Now the new Covenant is (as it were) a plank after that ship-wrack; It is another Indenture for life: it is not the same agreement renewed, nor the former Lease or Bond renewed, but a new one, of another kind and nature, made with man in another condition and capacity, and upon another condition.
1. This Covenant is a new compact and agreement betwixt God and man; There was another agreement before this; a Covenant of another nature, and upon other 1termes and considerations, and for another end: But man stood not to that agreement, he did voluntarily transgresse it, and thereby deprived himself of all the benefits promised in that Covenant, and fell under that death and curse, which God had threatened for the breach and transgression of it: Now the new Covenant is (as it were) a plank after that ship-wrack; It is another Indenture for life: it is not the same agreement renewed, nor the former Lease or Bond renewed, but a new one, of another kind and nature, made with man in another condition and capacity, and upon another condition.
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