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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.
Now I beseech you mark me! Is there any Covenant (unless that of grace) wherein the Lord doth thus own, and thus exalt a people? Is it not merely of the grace of God in Christ by whom we are made Kings and Priests to God? Is it imaginable that any people should be (as it were) Gods own proper goods, which he loveth, which he sets his heart upon, which he keeps in store for himself, for his own special use, which he will not part withal, which God accounts as his rare and exquisite, and precious treasure (as all this the word Segulah doth signify) and yet this people are not in a Covenant of grace?1
Now I beseech you mark me! Is there any Covenant (unlesse that of grace) wherein the Lord doth thus own, and thus exalt a people? Is it not meerly of the grace of God in Christ by whom we are made Kings and Priests to God? Is it imaginable that any people should be (as it were) Gods own proper goods, which he loveth, which he sets his heart upon, which he keeps in store for himself, for his own special use, which he will not part withall, which God accounts as his rare and exquisite, and precious treasure (as all this the word Segulah doth signifie) and yet this people are not in a Covenant of grace?1
- 1The immediate Introduction to the giving of the Law.
2. The immediate Introduction unto the giving of the Law, Exod. 20. 2. I am the Lord thy God which have, &c. why there is the very Covenant of grace; here is God as our God (and blessed are the people who have the Lord to be ⟨p. 176⟩their God) and here is Jesus Christ the Mediator of the Covenant implied; for in Christ doth God become our God; and there is our redemption from sin and Satan intimated by their deliverance out of Egypt, and presently there is the worship of God instituted and appointed, which if acceptable to God, must be performed with faith (for without faith it is impossible to please God) God would not command his people so to worship him, as to displease him,