A59035:1639
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.
1. Is the gift of God, Ephes. 2. 8. and Phil. 1. 29. It doth not (at all) flow from our selves. Therefore believers are said (Joh. 1. 13.) to be born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
2. And it is such a gift of God as is completely adopted to the Covenant of Grace: (To no Covenant but that, and to that it is) For that Covenant on Gods part is all in offers, and promises, and givings; and faith is all in receiving, and is depending, and acknowledging, and magnifying the grace of God.
2. And it is such a gift of God as is compleatly adopted to the Covenant of Grace: (To no Covenant but that, and to that it is) For that Covenant on Gods part is all in offers, and promises, and givings; and faith is all in receiving, and is depending, and acknowledging, and magnifying the grace of God.
And that Faith is the condition annexed to this Covenant, I shall present unto 1you a few Arguments (besides the Scriptures above mentioned) to demonstrate it.
- 1Demonstrations of it.