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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.
Sol. Yet it is true, that it is a Consequent of the Covenant; It is not a Cause why God is our God, yet it is an Immediate effect of this when God is our God: God doth not say, If you bring a changed and renewed heart, then ⟨p. 21⟩I will be your God; but yet, when God saith in Covenant, I will be your God, he saith also I will give you a new heart, &c.
2. Special Disagreement. In all Covenants drawn up betwixt person and 1person, there must be a mutual agreement, or else it is not a Covenant, neither is it binding, neither is there, or can there be a propriety. If a man offer himself upon such and such terms to be a husband unto a woman, it she disagree, if she cannot like the person, or his terms, here is no Covenant betwixt them; she cannot say This man is my husband; so if the Lord offers himself to be our God, but he and we differ upon terms proposed, he proposeth such terms as we cannot like, and will not yield unto; now it is evident that he is not our God in Covenant, nor can we say This God is our God. God saith, I am content to be your God; but then you must be content to be holy, Levit. 11. 44. I am the Lord your God, ye shall therefore sanctify your selves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Now if a person replies, but I will not be holy, of all things whatsoever I cannot abide holiness, I hate it, and I scorn it, and I will never yield unto it; this person hath not God to be his God in Covenant, for he utterly disagrees, he cannot endure a holy God, and he will not be holy as God is holy. Again, God saith, you would have me to be the Lord your God in Covenant; If so, then you must obey the voice of the Lord your God, and do what he commands, Deut. 27. 10. If you will have me for your God, I must rule you, and guide you, and prescribe unto you, what to do, and what to avoid; but if a person replies, I will not have God to rule me, and to order me, I will do what I think good, and will live as I list; I profess to thee, God is none of thy God; thou refusest him, and doest not come up to his Covenant proposals. What a silly thing is it, for any of you, to own God for your God, whilst you utterly disagree with him in his proposals, especially in those which must necessarily constitute you to be his people? viz. sanctity and subjection.