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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.
SECT. IV.
3. THE Infallible evidences by which we may know that God is our God 1in Covenant. I will present unto you seven Evidences for this, and I beseech you to ponder them seriously: You may know that God is your God, and that you are his people in Covenant.
- 1The evidences that God is our God in in Covenant.
1. By answerable and reciprocal acts. 2. By inclusive and exclusive interests and properties. 3. By your choice and peculiar enjoyments, or (at least) your desires of them. 4. By the subordination and conformity of your hearts unto his authority and will. 5. By your sweet contentment and satisfaction in the manifestations of God in any part of his Covenant unto your souls. 6. By your dependence on God as your God in Covenant. 7. By your Covenant-care and carriage.
1. By answerable and reciprocal acts. 2. By inclusive and exclusive interests and properties. 3. By your choyce and peculiar enjoyments, or (at least) your desires of them. 4. By the subordination and conformity of your hearts unto his authority and will. 5. By your sweet contentment and satisfaction in the manifestations of God in any part of his Covenant unto your souls. 6. By your dependance on God as your God in Covenant. 7. By your Covenant-care and carriage.