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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.
2. A dedication of our selves to God. A kind of consecration, wherein we choose him to be our God, and bind our selves to him to be his. A willing 1choice, Deut. 26. 17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God—verse 18. And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people. Isa. 63. 19. We are thine, thou never barest rule over them, they were not called by thy name. Isa. 64. 9. Behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Psal. 116. 16. Oh Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant. Psal. 119. 94. I am thine, save me, &c.
2. A dedi•ation of our selves to God. A kinde of consecration, wherein we choose him to be our God, and binde our selves to him to be his. A willing 1choyce, Deut. 26. 17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God—verse 18. And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people. Isa. 63. 19. We are thine, thou never barest rule over them, they were not called by thy name. Isa. 64. 9. Behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Psal. 116. 16. Oh Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant. Psal. 119. 94. I am thine, save me, &c.
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