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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. In respect of admission: It is the mere mercy and grace of God which ⟨p. 15⟩1opens the door, and takes in the sinner into this Covenant with himself. I will love them freely, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
2. In respect of admission: It is the meer mercy and grace of God which ⟨p. 15⟩1opens the door, and takes in the sinner into this Covenant with himself. I will love them freely, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
- 1In admission to it.
3. In respect of dispensation. All the communications from it, and all the 1impartings of the treasures of it, are the flowings of mercy, and the overflowings of the grace of God.
- 1In the dispensation of it.
But I am now only to speak of the mercy and grace of God, as the foundation, 1the causa impulsiva; these alone are the moving cause, why God made this new Covenant. For,