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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.
Forgiveness of sins; besides that place formerly mentioned, in Deut. 4. 29, 30, &c. you read of frequent Promises of forgiving of sins upon their Sacrifices, in Levit. 9 and 2 Chro. 7. 14. If my people shall humble themselves &c. I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin.
Eternal life, both promised and enjoyed; Many shall come from the East and West and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God, Matth. 8. 11. They embraced the promises of a better Country, even an heavenly, vers. 11, 13, 16. Prepared for them a City, We hope to be saved even as they, Acts 15. 11, &c.
3 Quest. Wherein they differ, and wherein the betterness of the New Covenant 1of Grace doth consist.
- 1Wherein they differ.