A59035:1602
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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5. They do differ in Time and Duration, The Old Covenant was but temporary, I mean as a Covenant with such and such ceremonies: therefore it is called 1weak and vanishing, Heb. 8. 13 What should the shadows do when the body it self is come? But the New Covenant abides for ever; It is the everlasting Gospel. And it is an everlasting Ministration both for the matter and manner of it.
- 1In Time and in Duration.
There might be many more differences between them produced, but I shall spare to mention them.
Thus have you heard the betterness of the New Covenant and therewith a discourse of the several dispensations of the Covenant; I will make a few useful Applications from what I have delivered, and then I shall go on to another general Head of the Covenant.