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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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THE Apostle in the 14. verse of this Chapter exhorts the believing Hebrews (unto whom he wrote this Epistle) to the serious study and practice of peace and holiness: And in the 15. verse he dehorts them from all bitterness of spirit, and profaneness of life. This latter he doth enforce by an argument ab exemplo: in verse 16. from Esau that loose and profane person (who for one morsel of bread sold his birthright) preferring the satisfaction of his sensual appetite, before the fruition of so a great blessing and dignity, the which he therefore forfeited, and could never obtain, although he sought it carefully with tears, verse 17.
THE Apostle in the 14. verse of this Chapter exhorts the believing Hebrews (unto whom he wrote this Epistle) to the serious study and practice of peace and holinesse: And in the 15. verse he dehorts them from all bitternesse of spirit, and profanenesse of life. This latter he doth enforce by an argument ab exemplo: in verse 16. from Esau that loose and profane person (who for one morsel of bread sold his birthright) preferring the satisfaction of his sensual appe•ite, before the fruition of so a great blessing and dignity, the which he therefore forfeited, and could never obtain, although he sought it carefully with tears, verse 17.
The former duty of holiness he urgeth upon them from the consideration of their evangelical estate (that is) of the excellencies, blessings, and privileges which they had obtained by the Gospel of Grace: To illustrate this the more, he makes a comparison between the Law and the Gospel; and the condition under the one, with the condition under the other, from verse 18. to verse 25. wherein he doth represent unto them their admirable advantages by the Gospel, and therefore their stronger obligation to embrace it, and to live answerable unto it in holiness of conversation.
The former duty of holinesse he urgeth upon them from the consideration of their evangelical estate (that is) of the excellencies, blessings, and priviledges which they had obtained by the Gospel of Grace: To illustrate this the more, he makes a comparison between the Law and the Gospel; and the condition under the one, with the condition under the other, from verse 18. to verse 25. wherein he doth represent unto them their admirable advantages by the Gospel, and therefore their stronger obligation to embrace it, and to live answerable unto it in holinesse of conversation.