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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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3. Engage themselves unto him: Many Nations shall be joined to the Lord in 1that day, and shall be my people, Zech. 2. 11. They yield themselves unto the Lord, (or as it is in the original, they give the hand unto the Lord) 2 Chron. 30. 8. As the custom is, when men make a Covenant or Agreement, they strike hands, or take one another by the hand, arguing hereby their consent and engagement, as the people in Ezra 10. 19. gave their hands that they would put away their wives. So in covenanting with God, we give out the hand unto him; (i. e.) we give up our selves unto him, and bind our selves unto him.
3. Engage themselves unto him: Many Nations shall be joyned to the Lord in 1that day, and shall be my people, Zech. 2. 11. They yield themselves unto the Lord, (or as it is in the original, they give the hand unto the Lord) 2 Chron. 30. 8. As the custome is, when men make a Covenant or Agreement, they strike hands, or take one another by the hand, arguing hereby their consent and engagement, as the people in Ezra 10. 19. gave their hands that they would put away their wives. So in covenanting with God, we give out the hand unto him; (i. e.) we give up our selves unto him, and binde our selves unto him.
- 1Engage our selves to him.