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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.
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
- 1What it is to be a people in Covenant.What it is to be a p•ople in Covenant.
As there is some singular thing in that Covenant expression, I will be your God, or I will be a God to you; So there is some special thing in that Covenant expression likewise, you shall be my people, or you shall be to me for a people: And if I mistake not, there are three things in it.
Sol. 1. A Separation; you shall not be any others, nor for any other but for my self; 1and this is expressly declared, Deut. 29. 12, 13. That thou shouldest enter into Covenant with the Lord thy God—That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself: and chap. 7. 6. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a sp•cial people unto himself; and chap. 16. 6. The Lord hath chosen thee to be a ⟨p. 18⟩peculiar people unto himself. 2 Cor. 6. 17, 18. Come out from amongst them, and be ye separate saith the Lord—And I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord God Almighty.