A59035:1641
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.
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.
1. That without which God is not our God, nor are we his people: And upon 1which God is our God, and we do become his people and children; This is a condition of the Covenant; But faith is that without which God is not our God, nor are we his people, and upon faith God is our God, and we are his people and children: See it in the particulars.
- 1Without faith God is not our God, nor we his people.
1. Without Faith there is no Relation (by way of Covenant) twixt God and us;