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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.
There are four acts which God doth express when he becomes our God in Covenant.
There are four acts which God doth expresse when he becomes our God in Covenant.
1. There is his choosing act; he makes choice of us before any other to be his people. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all the people that are upon the face of the earth, Deut. 7. 6.
1. There is his choosing act; he makes choyce of us before any other to be his people. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all the people that are upon the face of the earth, Deut. 7. 6.
2. There is his loving act. When I passed by thee, and looked on thee, Behold 1thy time was the time of love. And I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, Ezek. 16. 18.
2. There is his loving act. When I passed by thee, and looked on thee, Behold 1thy time was the time of love. And I sware unto thee, and entred into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine,