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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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Use 6 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people an everlasting Covenant? Then let all the people of God be so wise as to use all the means to continue the 1Covenant in an everlastingness on their part: God worketh our lastingness in the Covenant by means: You find in Scripture that Spiritual means are subordinate to Spiritual ends, and that certainty of issues doth take in a necessity of means. The Covenant is everlasting; and that it may be so, therefore doth God put his people upon several ways and duties to perpetuate the Covenant, and to assure themselves it shall be so.
Use 6 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people an everlasting Covenant? Then let all the people of God be so wise as to use all the means to continue the 1Covenant in an everlastingnesse on their part: God worketh our lastingness in the Covenant by means: You finde in Scripture that Spiritual means are subordinate to Spiritual ends, and that certainty of issues doth take in a necessity of means. The Covenant is everlasting; and that it may be so, therefore doth God put his people upon several wayes and duties to perpetuate the Covenant, and to assure themselves it shall be so.
- 1Use all means to continue in the Covenant.
There are ten things which if you carefully heed, you may be confident of the everlastingness of the Covenant.