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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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3. Let us advance one step further from Noah to Abraham where we shall hear 1of the Covenant again, Gen. 17. 2. I will make my Covenant between me and thee; and verse 7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generation for an everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee: Here is a Covenant expressly made twixt God and Abraham; but what Covenant was it? Surely not a Covenant of works, but a Covenant of grace. And that I shall clear unto you by four particulars which I pray you well to consider and observe.
3. Let us advance one step further from Noah to Abraham where we shall hear 1of the Covenant again, Gen. 17. 2. I will make my Covenant between me and thee; and verse 7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generation for an everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee: Here is a Covenant expresly made twixt God and Abraham; but what Covenant was it? Surely not a Covenant of works, but a Covenant of grace. And that I shall clear unto you by four particulars which I pray you well to consider and observe.
- 1From Noah to Abraham.
1. In this Covenant you have Jesus Christ promised unto Abraham; so the Apostle in Gal. 3. 16. To Abraham and his seed was the promise made; he saith not to thy seeds, as speaking of many, but of one who is Christ.