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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. 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.
O what a happiness is this that your Sun never sets; that your day still continues, your God still continues, and still continues to be your God! your God still loves you, and his love still continues towards you; Jesus Christ still continues, and he continues still to be your Redemption, your Righteousness, your Peace, and your salvation.
3. A third is, an endless perpetuity: you can never come to the end of everlastingness: 1you may see an end of your worldly riches (they fly away) and you may see an end of your friends (they die away) and you may see an end of your lives (man dies and wasteth away, and man gives up the Ghost, and where is he? Job 14. 10.) But you shall never see an end of the everlasting Covenant: Time is the measure of all the world, but everlastingness is the measure of the Covenant of Grace; as long as everlastingness lasts, & as far as everlastingness goes, so long doth the Covenant last, and so far doth the Covenant extend. Everlastingness hath no end, and the everlasting Covenant hath no end: why! This heightens, and this sweetens the Covenant of grace! God is our God, and we are his people to everlasting, without end: Though afflictions fall in, though losses, though persecutions, though death it self, yet the Covenant goes on and lasts. God is your portion for ever, he hath married you to himself for ever in loving-kindness, and mercy, and judgment, and faithfulness.