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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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2. Donation of himself. I will be your God, i. e. I will bestow my self upon 1you: you shall have a propriety in me; I am God, even thy God, Psal. 50. 7. This God is our God, Psal. 48. 14. He gives himself (as it were) into your possession, into your hands: As when the Indenture is drawn and sealed, the land falls into your pocket: and therefore, whensoever you find him covenanting, you find him (as it were) giving away himself, granting a right unto himself, and a possession and enjoyment of himself. After the Lord had made a Covenant with Abraham, he thereupon stiles himself the God of Abraham, and so the God of Isaac, and of Jacob, and of Israel; and thus making a Covenant with all the faithful, he thereupon is theirs, their God, and their Father. They have as much right unto him, and propriety in him, as the wife in and to the husband, who becomes hers by a Covenant of Marriage. My Beloved is mine, and I am his. This is a wonderful truth, that God (in the Covenant of grace) gives himself: Consider God,
- 1Donation of himself.
1. Either Essentially, in his eternal, self-sufficient, holy, blessed, infinite, ⟨p. 17⟩glorious Being and Attributes: as thus considered he is yours, makes all over unto you really.