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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. 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.
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.
- 1He promiseth to be our God.
This one thing which God promiseth (I will be your God) it is as one 1rightly speaks, Anima foederis, the very soul of all the Covenant: It is summa Foederis, the excellency, the very quintessence of it. It is far more than that, I will pardon you; than that, I will help you, I will bless you; or that, I will save you. As Christ spake concerning that command of loving the Lord with all thy heart, this is the great Commandment; So may we say of this part of the Covenant of this promise, I will be your God; it is the great part of the Covenant, it is the great promise of the Covenant of grace: Indeed it is the sum of all; All is contained in it; and therefore David said, Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord,