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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.
4. God doth promise to confirm his people unto the end, and to finish the work 1which he hath begun in them. 1 Cor. 1. 8. He shall confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus. Phil. 1. 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it (will perfect it) he will carry it on until the day of Jesus Christ.
4. God doth promise to confirm his people unto the end, and to finish the work 1which he hath begun in them. 1 Cor. 1. 8. He shall confirm you to the end, that ye may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Jesus. Phil. 1. 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begunne a good work in you, will perform it (will perfect it) he will carry it on untill the day of Jesus Christ.
- 1God promiseth to confirm his people to the end.
5. God doth promise to break down all which might else cause his people to 1break off the Covenant; There are but five causes supposable for the breaking off that Covenant on our part, and God removes every one of them from his people.
- 1God promiseth to over-power whatsoever may make, his people t break Covenant.