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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. How strongly some of the people of God have been hazarded in the lasting part of the Covenant? Solomon, Peter, Asa, insomuch as many from their falls have erected the Doctrine of the Apostasy of the Saints.
4. How strongly some of the people of God have been hazarded in the lasting part of the Covenant? Solomon, Peter, Asa, insomuch as many from their falls have erected the Doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints.
5. Those many remaining Principles for inconstancy and failing: as spiritual pride, unbelief, hypocrisy, and worldliness, much of every one of these still in our hearts.
5. Those many remaining Principles for inconstancy and failing: as spiritual pride, unbelief, hypocrysie, and worldliness, much of every one of these still in our hearts.
6. Add to all these the exceeding weakness in all our graces. How little faith, how weak love, and how apt to be shaken, and offended! Truly we must acknowledge that what we are, we are by the grace of God; and that if we be strong, we are strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, and that it is the Lord who keeps us by the strength of the Covenant to continue steadfast and faithful to the end, &c.
6. Adde to all these the exceeding weaknesse in all our graces. How little faith, how weak love, and how apt to be shaken, and offended! Truely we must acknowledge that what we are, we are by the grace of God; and that if we be strong, we are strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, and that it is the Lord who keeps us by the strength of the Covenant to continue steadfast and faithfull to the end, &c.