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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.
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,
- 1Mercy is the foundation of it. For,
1. There could be no cause or reason in us: we were become sinners, we were 1become miserable. Ezek. 16. 6. When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live: yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Ver. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, Behold, thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, saith the Lord. This was our condition, a sinful, polluted, loathsome condition, when God set his love upon us, and entered into a Covenant with us.
1. There could be no cause or reason in us: we were become sinners, we were 1become miserable. Ezek. 16. 6. When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live: yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Ver. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, Behold, thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakednesse: yea, I sware unto thee, and entred into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, saith the Lord. This was our condition, a sinful, polluted, loathsome condition, when God set his love upon us, and entred into a Covenant with us.