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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.
3. Though the Covenant doth last twixt God and his people for ever, yet there are weighty Reasons for them to take heed of sinning against their God.
1. They do exceedingly dishonour their God by their sinning, and cause his Name to be blasphemed, as Nathan charged it on David, 2 Sam. 12. 14.
2. They make an unkind return to their most kind God: Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise: doth this answer his love and goodness to you, to choose you for his people before other people?
2. They make an unkind return to their most kind God: Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise: doth this answer his love and goodnesse to you, to chuse you for his people before other people?