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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.
4. And doth not this Covenant hold out mercy unto you? yea the best mercy! and upon the best terms! The other Covenant affords you no mercy, it easts you off, it condemns you to death and wrath. And this Covenant yet offers you mercy, and life, and salvation; and no Covenant but this doth so. What, and yet to refuse to come into it? surely either you know not that you are sinners, and what will befall you for your sins, or else you are desperately wicked to slight and refuse the mercy and grace of God in this Covenant. Ezek. 24. 13. Because I would have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. So may the Lord say unto some of us, Because I would have showed you mercy, but you would not accept of mercy, therefore you shall never have mercy. And because I would have taken you into Covenant, and you would not come into my Covenant of grace, and life, and peace, I will never be a merciful God to you, nor a gracious God to you: but you shall dye in your sins and perish for ever, Heb. 2. 3. Use 2 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? (Heb. 12. 25. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth; 1much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.)
4. And doth not this Covenant hold out mercy unto you? yea the best mercy! and upon the best terms! The other Covenant affords you no mercy, it easts you off, it condemns you to death and wrath. And this Covenant yet offers you mercy, and life, and salvation; and no Covenant but this doth so. What, and yet to refuse to come into it? surely either you know not that you are sinners, and what will befall you for your sins, or else you are desperately wicked to slight and refuse the mercy and grace of God in this Covenant. Ezek. 24. 13. Because I would have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. So may the Lord say unto some of us, Because I would have shewed you mercy, but you would not accept of mercy, therefore you shall never have mercy. And because I would have taken you into Covenant, and you would not come into my Covenant of grace, and life, and peace, I will never be a merciful God to you, nor a gracious God to you: but you shall dye in your sins and perish for ever,