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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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Quest. But some may demand, What great matter is comprehended in this, 1when God saith in the Covenant, I will be your God? I will be a God to you: Is he not the God of the whole world? Is he not a God to all the people of the earth.
- 1What is comprehended under it.
Sol. I answer, That he is so, he is the God of the whole earth, and there is no God besides him; He is a God to all the creatures, in respect of their production, they were all made and formed by him, they are the work of his hands; And in respect of preservation, In him we live, and move, and have our being, Act. 17. 28. There is a Relation betwixt him and all creatures: But this is inconsiderable in comparison of this Covenant-relation unto his people, wherein he saith, I will be a God to you, or your God. This relation is of all other the highest, and nearest; as when a man promiseth unto a woman, I will be a husband unto you; this takes in love, and nearness, and care, and maintenance.
Sol. I answer, That he is so, he is the God of the whole earth, and there is no God besides him; He is a God to all the creatures, in respect of their production, they were all made and formed by him, they are the work of his hands; And in respect of preservation, In him we live, and move, and have our being, Act. 17. 28. There is a Relation betwixt him and all creatures: But this is inconsiderable in comparison of this Covenant-relation unto his people, wherein he saith, I will be a God to you, or your God. This relation is of all other the highest, and nearest; as when a man promiseth unto a woman, I will be a husband unto you; this takes in love, and nearnesse, and care, and maintenance.