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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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2. Abraham (In relation to this Covenant) is styled a believer, yea the Father of all them that believe, Rom. 4. 11. And the Gospel was the means of his faith, which was a justifying faith, Gal. 3. 8. The Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all Nations be blessed.
2. Abraham (In relation to this Covenant) is stiled a believer, yea the Father of all them that believe, Rom. 4. 11. And the Gospel was the means of his faith, which was a justifying faith, Gal. 3. 8. The Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all Nations be blessed.
3. He received the sign of Circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, Rom. 4. 11.
3. He received the signe of Circumcision, a seale of the righteousness of faith, Rom. 4. 11.
4. Moreover it is said of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that they are in the kingdom of Heaven,