A59035:1927
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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Quest. But can faith do this? Is it in the power of our faith thus to enable us? 1How can, or doth faith enable us to keep Covenant with our God?
- 1How doth faith enable us to keep Covenant with God.
Sol. This is an excellent question, and I would resolve it thus: Faith doth enable us to keep our Covenant with God six ways.
Sol. This is an excellent question, and I would resolve it thus: Faith doth enable us to keep our Covenant with God six wayes.
1. By pleading the Covenant; by enabling us to go unto, and rest upon our God in Covenant, to let out that strength and sufficiency of that grace which 1he hath promised unto all his people in Covenant with him; the strength to keep the Covenant lies in the Covenant, and by faith you get it.
- 1By pleading the Covenant.