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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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4. Perpetuity. I will be a God unto you, or I will be your God in a Covenant of Grace; it is as if he should say, I will be a God unto you, as long as I am God; 1I am God for ever; and I will be your God for ever. This God is our God for ever and ever, Psal. 48. 14. I will love you and bless you for ever. Did I not say aright, when I told you, that Gods engaging of himself to be our God in the Covenant, was the soul, the life, the sum of the Covenant? what can we have more, or desire more? A God to be our God, a merciful, gracious, blessed, blessing God, to be our merciful, gracious, our blessed, our blessing God, and all this as long as he is God, for ever, and for ever.
4. Perpetuity. I will be a God unto you, or I will be your God in a Covenant of Grace; it is as if he should say, I will be a God unto you, as long as I am God; 1I am God for ever; and I will be your God for ever. This God is our God for ever and ever, Psal. 48. 14. I will love you and blesse you for ever. Did I not say aright, when I told you, that Gods engaging of himself to be our God in the Covenant, was the soul, the life, the summe of the Covenant? what can we have more, or desire more? A God to be our God, a merciful, gracious, blessed, blessing God, to be our merciful, gracious, our blessed, our blessing God, and all this as long as he is God, for ever, and for ever.
- 1Perpetuity.
3. In this Covenant he promiseth, that we shall be his people, Jer. 31. 33. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So