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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.
2. The reason why the Covenant which God makes with his people, is an everlasting 1Covenant, and shall be so.
- 1Reasons of it. In respect of God.
1. There are reasons for this in respect of God.
1. His Wisdom hath contrived this Covenant in a way of everlastingness, 1which appears in three particulars. 1. He lays the foundation of it not upon our selves, but Christ; not on our will and power, but on the power and sufficiency of Jesus Christ. 2. He engages himself for himself, and for his people, to keep them unto himself, and from falling, and to continue them to be his people for ever; not only to give them grace, but to preserve that grace; not only to begin a good work, but also to finish it. 3. He promiseth mercy to pardon the sins of his people, and grace to heal their back-slidings.
1. His Wisdome hath contrived this Covenant in a way of everlastingnesse, 1which appeares in three particulars. 1. He layes the foundation of it not upon our selves, but Christ; not on our will and power, but on the power and sufficiency of Jesus Christ. 2. He engages himself for himself, and for his people, to keep them unto himself, and from falling, and to continue them to be his people for ever; not only to give them grace, but to preserve that grace; not only to beginne a good work, but also to finish it. 3. He promiseth mercy to pardon the sins of his people, and grace to heal their back-slidings.