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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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4. I will add one consideration more; it is not possible (I speak ex hypothesi, 1in reference to the Will, and Power, and Truth of God revealed in the Covenant) that the people of God really brought into Covenant with him, should break off the Covenant with him, and so make it mutable and void on their part; Suppose but this, that the Covenant shall not fail nor cease on Gods part (that God will be but true to perform what he hath promised unto his people) I then affirm that it is not possible that the Covenant should fail on our part; my reason is this, Because the full performance of the Covenant on Gods part, doth essentially and naturally include the performance of it on our part, and prevents all breaking and voiding of the Covenant.
4. I will adde one consideration more; it is not possible (I speak ex hypothesi, 1in reference to the Will, and Power, and Truth of God revealed in the Covenant) that the people of God really brought into Covenant with him, should break off the Covenant with him, and so make it mutable and voyd on their part; Suppose but this, that the Covenant shall not faile nor cease on Gods part (that God will be but true to performe what he hath promised unto his people) I then affirme that it is not possible that the Covenant should faile on our part; my reason is this, Because the full performance of the Covenant on Gods part, doth essentially and naturally include the performance of it on our part, and prevents all breaking and voiding of the Covenant.
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God in this Covenant doth promise unto his people,