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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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3. If you consider the comprehensive efficacy of this, that God is to us a God 1in Covenant. This comprehends in it, all good, all love, all mercy, all blessings whatsoever. If God be our God, all good must be our good: heaven and earth are settled upon you: all is given unto you, when God gives himself unto you: He is your Sun, and your Shield; He will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold. How wonderful is this, that God should be our God in a Covenant of grace! We wonder at Adams interests, and possessions: But the interests and enjoyments of the sinner, being brought into this Covenant with God, as they are more certain and stable, so they are more high and full. You are now interested in such mercies, and in such fruitions which Adam never did, or could taste of in his original state of righteousness.2
3. If you consider the comprehensive efficacy of this, that God is to us a God 1in Covenant. This comprehends in it, all good, all love, all mercy, all blessings whatsoever. If God be our God, all good must be our good: heaven and earth are setled upon you: all is given unto you, when God gives himself unto you: He is your Sunne, and your Shield; He will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold. How wonderful is this, that God should be our God in a Covenant of grace! We wonder at Adams interests, and possessions: But the interests and enjoyments of the sinner, being brought into this Covenant with God, as they are more certaine and stable, so they are more high and full. You are now interessed in such mercies, and in such fruitions which Adam never did, or could taste of in his original state of righteousnesse.2
- 1The comprehensive efficacy of this.
- 2All other gifts in comparison with this.