A59035:1613
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.
Use 6 O what manner of persons should the people of God be in these times, who live under the new Covenant, the best of all Covenants! Better than the Covenant of works, better 1than the Old Covenant of Grace for perspicuity, for efficacy, for liberty, &c.
Ʋse 6 O what manner of persons should the people of God be in these times, who live under the new Covenant, the best of all Covenants! Better than the Covenant of works, better 1than the Old Covenant of Grace for perspicuity, for efficacy, for liberty, &c.
- 1What manner of persons should we be! For knowledge
1. What manner of men should we be in knowledge of Christ, and of the grace of God in Christ!
2. What manner of men should we be for soundness of judgement in the truths 1of the Covenant, having so much light of the Gospel revealing the Covenant.
- 1For soundness of judgment.