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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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And to speak plainly according to the Arminian doctrine, all the stability, and state of a sinners salvation, is made to depend upon the will of a sinner; the election of God, the conversion of a sinner, the beneficial Redemption by Christ, the perseverance in Christ and grace; all of these do lie at the mercy of the will of a poor sinner; and truly I must confess, that if the Covenant of grace had no surer foundation then mans w•ll, it may quickly cease to be an everlasting Covenant. But we read of other and better foundations (for the perpetuity of this Covenant) th•n mans will; we read that it is grounded on the ⟨p. 159⟩immutable counsel of God, and on his absolute promises, and on his Oath, and on the blood of Christ confirming and establishing of it, and on his power, and intercession, and presence, and love, and Spirit, and faithfulness.
And to speak plainly according to the Arminian doctrine, all the stability, and state of a sinners salvation, is made to depend upon the will of a sinner; the election of God, the conversion of a sinner, the beneficial Redemption by Christ, the perseverance in Christ and grace; all of these do lie at the mercy of the will of a poor sinner; and truly I must confesse, that if the Covenant of grace had no surer foundation then mans w•ll, it may quickly cease to be an everlasting Covenant. But we read of other and better foundations (for the perpetuity of this Covenant) th•n mans will; we read that it is grounded on the ⟨p. 159⟩immutable counsel of God, and on his absolute promises, and on his Oath, and on the blood of Christ confirming and establishing of it, and on his power, and intercession, and presence, and love, and Spirit, and faithfulnesse.
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