A59035:1903
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.
SECT. VIII.
4. Use IS uniting Faith the condition of the Covenant of Grace, so that all Believers 1in Christ are really in Covenant with God, and God with them? Then you who are believers (who are by faith united unto Christ) learn from hence the duties which do especially concern you as Believers interested in Christ, and in the Covenant: The duties which do much concern you are these. 1. Improve your faith to a dependence on your God. 2. Improve your faith to an observance or keeping Covenant with your God. 3. Remember that it is Jesus Christ upon whose account you and God are in Covenant.
4. Ʋse IS uniting Faith the condition of the Covenant of Grace, so that all Believers 1in Christ are really in Covenant with God, and God with them? Then you who are believers (who are by faith united unto Christ) learn from hence the duties which do especially concern you as Believers interested in Christ, and in the Covenant: The duties which do much concern you are these. 1. Improve your faith to a dependance on your God. 2. Improve your faith to an observance or keeping Covenant with your God. 3. Remember that it is Jesus Christ upon whose account you and God are in Covenant.
- 1Instructions.
1. Being united by faith unto Christ, and so brought into Covenant, now improve 1your faith to a dependence upon your God, who is your God in Covenant: Come unto him in the name of Christ as unto your God, and rely on him, and expect to receive from him, all the good for which he hath engaged himself unto you in Covenant: For the better managing of this instruction, I will briefly show unto you