A59035:1847
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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But Theologically he is an heir who is accepted and admitted into the possession promised and set forth, and given by God, who yet lives for ever to be our God and Father; and indeed our inheritance and inheriting is nevertheless because our Father lives; but it is therefore our settled and blessed inheritance, because our God and Father lives for ever.
But Theologically he is an heire who is accepted and admitted into the possession promised and set forth, and given by God, who yet lives for ever to be our God and Father; and indeed our inheritance and inheriting is neverthelesse because our Father lives; but it is therefore our setled and blessed inheritance, because our God and Father lives for ever.
1. God himself, Rom. 8. 17. If children, then heirs, heirs of God: As your children 1are your heirs, so Gods children are his heirs; he hath never a child but he is an heir, and an heir of God. There is an estate of inheritance set out for him: what God possesseth, of that (according to his capacity and proportion) shall he be possessed of holiness, glory, happiness.