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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.
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.
1. God himself, Rom. 8. 17. If children, then heirs, heirs of God: As your children 1are your heirs, so Gods chidren are his heirs; he hath never a childe 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 holinesse, glory, happinesse.
- 1Of God.
2. All the inheritance which Christ hath purchased, and God hath entailed, or settled, or passed over unto you in his Covenant, of no less then all this are believers 1heirs: This is the inheritance, and the estate of which you are heirs; namely all the good set out for you in the Covenant by God the Father, and confirmed and sealed unto you by the blood of Christ the Mediator of that Covenant: Therefore Believers are (in Scripture) styled Heirs of the promise, Heb. 6. 12. of the grace of life,