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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
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2. As to the real and effectual execution of this, in an actual and mutual acceptation of each other, and obligation of themselves to each other. Thus considered, you must distinguish betwixt the act of voluntary consent in the people or persons covenanting with God, and betwixt the cause of that willing consent, election and estimation; There is a voluntary consent in all the people of the Covenant, They do take the Lord to be their God, and they do resign, surrender up, and give themselves to be his people, and agree to walk with him; But then this ariseth not from their own power and ability, but only from the love and power of the Grace of God, who in effectual vocation, doth not only say You shall be my people, but also makes them so to be; They become his people, but he makes them willing to be so; They agree to all that he requires, but it is because he enables them so to do.
2. As to the real and effectual execution of this, in an actual and mutual acceptation of each other, and obligation of themselves to each other. Thus considered, you must distinguish betwixt the act of voluntary consent in the people or persons covenanting with God, and betwixt the cause of that willing consent, election and estimation; There is a voluntary consent in all the people of the Covenant, They do take the Lord to be their God, and they do resigne, surrender up, and give themselves to be his people, and agree to walk with him; But then this ariseth not from their own power and ability, but only from the love and power of the Grace of God, who in effectual vocation, doth not only say You shall be my people, but also makes them so to be; They become his people, but he makes them willing to be so; They agree to all that he requires, but it is because he enables them so to do.
Before I pass from this, I shall make some Use of it.
Before I passe from this, I shall make some Use of it.