A59035:1691
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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1. Use Then how are men mistaken! How have they deluded themselves! how 1must they return ashamed, who have nursed up their fancies and presumptions about the mercy of God, and the many promises of God about salvation, and other blessings, yea and about God himself, what a good, and gracious, and merciful God he is, and so will be to them?
1. Use THen how are men mistaken! How have they deluded themselves! how 1must they return ashamed, who have nursed up their fancies and presumptions about the mercy of God, and the many promises of God about salvation, and other blessings, yea and about God himself, what a good, and gracious, and merciful God he is, and so will be to them?
- 1To discover the presumption of many who plead their interest in the promises without the performance of the condition.
O but sirs! There is a condition in the Bond. God makes many sweet and ⟨p. 189⟩comfortable promises, O but there is a condition; And God saith he will be such a gracious and merciful God, &c. O but there is a condition; and he saith that he will save, and give eternal life; O but there is a condition, a condition that you think not of, a condition that you never attained unto: Faith is the condition of the Covenant: You must be believers in Christ, and then and so you must claim the promises, you must have an interest in Christ, or else you can never have an interest in the privileges of the Covenant: you have owned the promised mercy, and the promised salvation in the Covenant; O but you have not all this while owned Christ by saith, and therefore you have all this while deluded your souls.
O but sirs! There is a condition in the Bond. God makes many sweet and