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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. 2 How we come to be his people, whether by any voluntary act of our own, or 1by the sole effect of his grace, because he saith, ye shall be my people.
- 1How we come to be Gods people in Covenant.
For the resolution of this, know, that the Covenant may be considered two ways.
Sol. 1. As to the Platform of its constitution: which shows of what form the contracting is, when God declares that he as a God makes over himself unto his 1people and his people make over themselves unto him.
Sol. 1. As to the Platforme of its constitution: which shews of what forme the contracting is, when God declares that he as a God makes over himself unto his 1people and his people make over themselves unto him.
- 1The Covenant may be considered As to the Platform of its constitution. As to the real execution of itThe Covenant may be considered As to the Platforme of its constitution. As to the real execution of it