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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
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.
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 Ezek. 11. 20. They shall be 1my people, and I will be their God. Zach. 13, 9. I will say It is my people, and they shall say The Lord is my God. This is the Covenant; This mutual engagement on either side is it, I will be your God, and you shall be my people. This is a Marriage, I will be your Husband, and you shall be my wife: I take you to to be my Husband; and I take you to be my wife; This Reciprocal consent, and this Reciprocal agreement, Thou shalt be mine, and I will be thine; Thou shalt be for me, and I will be for thee, Hos. 3. 3. this makes the marriage: So the Reciprocal acceptance, consent, and agreement betwixt God and us makes up the Covenant between us, in the very formal and vital nature of it.
- 1He promiseth we shall be his people.
Here are two questions unto which I would speak a few things.
Quest. 1 What this expression of the Covenant imports, you shall be my people; or what it is to be a people in Covenant with God.1
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