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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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SECT. II
1. THE Characters of such a people, who as yet have not the Lord to be their 1God in Covenant. I shall present unto you four of them, viz universal absence. 2. Special disagreement. 3. A contrary league. 4. Positive unbelief.
- 1Characters of a people not in Covenant.
1. Universal absence of all those covenant-tokens which God always bestows on them with whom he is a God in Covenant: God is never a God in Covenant 1to any, but some new and excellent qualities are derived from God; even the excellencies expressed in his Covenant are imprinted in all with whom God is a God in Covenant. God is a God of the living, and not of the dead: If God be your God, you are a changed people, another kind of people than in times past you were. You have new hearts and a new spirit: And an heart is given unto you to know the Lord, and to love the Lord, and to fear the Lord your God, as he promiseth to all with whom he is a God in Covenant: And therefore if no Covenant grace is to be found in a mans heart, if no change, if no knowledge, if no love of God, no fear of God, this man cannot say God is my God; he cannot say God hath covenanted with me to be my God. Hence it is that the Apostle speaking of the Ephesians, as under their natural, sinful condition, being dead in sins and trespasses, and walking according to the course of the world, and having their conversation in the lusts of the flesh,