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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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2. This Covenant is such an agreement with sinful man, as springeth and riseth 1from the mercy and the grace of God; Hence you have these expressions; According to his mercy he saved us, Tit. 3. 6. By grace ye are saved, Eph. 2. 5. That in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ, ver. 7. This Covenant may be considered 2several ways, and in all of them, you may see the mere mercy and grace of God.
2. This Covenant is such an agreement with sinful man, as springeth and riseth 1from the mercy and the grace of God; Hence you have these expressions; According to his mercy he saved us, Tit. 3. 6. By grace ye are saved, Eph. 2. 5. That in the ages to come, he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindnesse towards us through Christ, ver. 7. This Covenant may be considered 2several wayes, and in all of them, you may see the meer mercy and grace of God.
- 1•is Covenant springeth from the mercy and grace of God.
- 2Mercy and grace appears in this Covenant.