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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.
1. One is a privation of a contrary estate, and of a contrary Relation for ever: For if the estate or relation be changed, it cannot be everlasting: and this shows the singular comfort and happiness of the people of God, that their estate and relation shall never fall into a contrary estate and relation. They are in the estate of life, and they shall never fall into the estate of death; They are in the estate of salvation, and they shall never fall into the estate of condemnation. They are the children of God, and the members of Christ, and they shall never pass into a relation contrary to this: Because every everlasting estate and relation is a perpetual absence or privation of a contrary estate.
1. One is a privation of a contrary estate, and of a contrary Relation for ever: For if the estate or relation be changed, it cannot be everlasting: and this shews the singular comfort and happiness of the people of God, that their estate and relation shall never fall into a contrary estate and relation. They are in the estate of life, and they shall never fall into the estate of death; They are in the estate of salvation, and they shall never fall into the estate of condemnation. They are the children of God, and the members of Christ, and they shall never pass into a relation contrary to this: Because every everlasting estate and relation is a perpetual absence or privation of a contrary estate.
2. A second is, a continuation of the same being and relation: for whatsoever is 1everlasting that must continue, it must not be broken off? if it be broken off, it is not everlasting.
- 1A continuation of the same being and relation.