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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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7. They are the Pillars in the Temple of God, and shall go no more out, Revelations 3. 12.
8. They are the inheritance of God, his portion, his peculiar treasure, and purchased with the blood of Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 19. He would never pay so dear a price for them, and then put them off; Isa. 49. 25. And Israel mine Inheritance. Zach. 2. 12. The Lord shall inherit Judah his portion. Deut. 32. 9. The Lords portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. Psamle 135. 4. The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
9. The commands and ways, and communions with God, are no burdens to them; 1not grievous, because they are born of God and love him; 1 John 5. 3. But pleasing and delightful. The Law of God is written in their hearts, Jer. 31. 33. Psal. 119. 16. I will delight my self in thy Statutes. Ver. 24. Thy Testimonies are my delight.