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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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2. A preserving power, that God preserves his people, the Scripture doth abundantly 1testify unto us, and if I can make it evident that he by his power preserves them unto everlasting glory, I think then that the everlastingness of the Covenant will appear unto you; and for that see 1 Pet. 1. 5. who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation: Mark, he speaks of the people, (whom ver. 2. he calls the elect of God the Father, and sanctified by the Spirit; ⟨p. 152⟩and ver. 3. begotten again) and of those he saith that they are kept; by what power? by the power of God; by what means? through faith; unto what? unto salvation, until they come to receive that incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that fades not away, which is reserved in heaven for them, ver. 3. 2 Tim. 4. 18. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me to his heavenly Kingdom. 2 Thess. 5. 23. I pray God your whole spirit and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ver. 24. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it: why, what can more clearly demonstrate the everlastingness of the Covenant with the people of God than this? that they are kept by the power of God unto salvation; that they are preserved unto his heavenly Kingdom; that God will preserve their whole spirit, and their whole soul, and their whole body blameless unto the coming of Christ.
2. A preserving power, that God preserves his people, the Scripture doth abundantly 1testifie unto us, and if I can make it evident that he by his power preserves them unto everlasting glory, I think then that the everlastingnesse of the Covenant will appear unto you; and for that see 1 Pet. 1. 5. who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation: Mark, he speaks of the people, (whom ver. 2. he calls the elect of God the Father, and sanctified by the Spirit; ⟨p. 152⟩