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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.
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 ⟨p. 16⟩a new heart; I will cause you to pass into the band of the Covenant; I will cause you to know me, to trust in my Name, to love me, to fear me, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them: He will subdue our iniquities, &c.
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 ⟨p. 16⟩a new heart; I will cause you to passe into the band of the Covenant; I will cause you to know me, to trust in my Name, to love me, to feate me, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them: He will subdue our iniquities, &c.
2. In this Covenant, he promiseth that he will be our God. I will establish 1my Covenant betwixt me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to be God unto thee and to thy seed after thee, Gen. 17. 7. This is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, &c. I will be their God, &c. Jer. 31. 33. And I will be their God, […]. 11. 20. They shall say, The Lord is my God, Zachariah 13. 9.