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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.
1. That this Covenant is a Covenant of promise, altogether of promise; God therein promiseth all that doth concern himself or us. There are many things in it which do concern himself, and many things which do concern us, and they are all of them under promise. The rewards (if I may so call them) on his part, of life, and mercy, and grace, and salvation, they are all promised; and the services, qualities, duties, on our part, in reference unto him as our God, are also promised by him. What he will perform, and what we are to perform, although they be different things, yet in this Covenant both of them are promised; He promiseth to love us, and he promiseth that we shall love him; He promiseth, that he will forgive our sins; and he promiseth, that we shall repent of our sins; He promiseth that he will help us; and he promiseth, that we shall walk in his Statutes; He promiseth that he will save us; and he promiseth that we shall believe to the saving of our souls.
1. That this Covenant is a Covenant of promise, altogether of promise; God therein promiseth all that doth concern himself or us. There are many things in it which do concern himself, and many things which do concern us, and they are all of them under promise. The rewards (if I may so call them) on his part, of life, and mercy, and grace, and salvation, they are all promised; and the services, qualities, duties, on our part, in reference unto him as our God, are also promised by him. What he will performe, and what we are to performe, although they be different things, yet in this Covenant both of them are promised; He promiseth to love us, and he promiseth that we shall love him; He promiseth, that he will forgive our sinnes; and he promiseth, that we shall repent of our sinnes; He promiseth that he will help us; and he promiseth, that we shall walk in his Satutes; He promiseth that he will save us; and he promiseth that we shall believe to the saving of our souls.
In the other Covenant of works, there God promiseth life, and man promiseth obedience; God was to perform his part, and man was to perform his part, and mans performance depended upon his own strength: But in this Covenant, God promiseth all, and he undertakes all; He undertakes to give all that he promiseth, and promiseth to give all that he requireth. I will give