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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. Or, Personally, as a Father; He is your Father, John 20. 17. I am a Father to Israel, Jer. 31. 9. As the Son, as God manifested in the flesh, he is your Christ; Christ gives himself to be yours. And as the holy Ghost, so also he is yours. Oh what a Covenant is this, wherein the covenanted have such a propriety. The eternal God is my God; The All-sufficient God is my God; The holy Ghost is my God; The merciful God is my God; The omnipotent, loving, gracious God is my God; and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is my Father; and Jesus Christ, God the Son is my God; and God the holy Ghost is mine. I have an interest in him and them, and I have a communion and fellowship with them.
2. Or, Personally, as a Father; He is your Father, John 20. 17. I am a Father to Israel, Jer. 31. 9. As the Sonne, as God manifested in the flesh, he is your Christ; Christ gives himself to be yours. And as the holy Ghost, so also he is yours. Oh what a Covenant is this, wherein the covenanted have such a propriety. The eternal God is my God; The All-sufficient God is my God; The holy Ghost is my God; The merciful God is my God; The omnipotent, loving, gracious God is my God; and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is my Father; and Jesus Christ, God the Sonne is my God; and God the holy Ghost is mine. I have an interest in him and them, and I have a communion and fellowship with them.
3. Engagement of himself, with all that he hath, and all that he can do. What 1a God can be or can do for your good; Thus far doth God engage unto his people when he makes a Covenant with them to be their God; he makes over himself, and all, by bond unto you: what I am, I am to you, and for you; and what I have or can do, it shall be for you. I am the holy God, I will be Holiness to you; I am the merciful God, I will be merciful to your transgressions; I am the gracious God, I will show favour to you, and will freely love and bless you; I am the All-sufficient God, and I will be a Sun and a Shield unto you; I am the Omnipotent God, I will up old you by the right hand of my power; I am All, and will be All in All unto you; I am God blessed for ever; and I will be Blessedness to you; for my Covenant with you, is the engagement of my self, and of all good unto you.