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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.
2. Conformity of will; for it is a Covenant of love, in which both parties have as it were but one heart, and one mind, and one will between them; and so in this Covenant [if we have God for our God; and if we be his people] what God likes, that do we like; and what our God loves, that do we love; and what our God hates, that do we hate; and what our God wills, that do we will; and what God would have done, that would we have done. This Covenant is an agreement, and mutual consent in all things; It will not permit us to give limits to God, because he is our sovereign Lord; Nor will it admit contrarieties and contradictions 'twixt God and us; And therefore in this Covenant, God writes his law in our hearts; i. e. he puts into our hearts such spiritual principles, as makes our will delightfully conformable unto his Will.
2. Conformity of will; for it is a Covenant of love, in which both parties have as it were but one heart, and one mind, and one will between them; and so in this Covenant [if we have God for our God; and if we be his people] what God likes, that do we like; and what our God loves, that do we love; and what our God hates, that do we hate; and what our God wills, that do we will; and what God would have done, that would we have done. This Covenant is an agreement, and mutual consent in all things; It will not permit us to give limits to God, because he is our soveraign Lord; Nor will it admit contrarieties and contradictions 'twixt God and us; And therefore in this Covenant, God writes his law in our hearts; i. e. he puts into our hearts such spiritual principles, as makes our will delightfully conformable unto his Will.
Alas! if there be an opposition 'twixt our hearts and God, a contradiction in ⟨p. 26⟩our minds and wills unto his mind and Will, this enmity plainly testifies, that he is not our God, and that we are none of his people; if you be at that point, that your judgement, and your will, and your lusts shall rule, and sway, and govern, and command, and that God must stoop and yield to your thoughts, and to your pleasures, and to your wills, &c. But by this it appears that he is your God, and that you are his people, if God doth rule, and you do obey; if he commands, and you do hearken; if his mind rules your judgement, if his Will rules your will, if his love rules your love, if his Law rules your lives; O Lord, what thou lovest I love, what thou commandest I approve; good is the Word of the Lord, the Commandment is holy and just, and good.