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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. I.
Answ. 1. A Covenant in General, is a compact or mutual 1agreement betwixt parties, in which they bind each other to the performance of what they do (by agreement) promise to each other. Conference, and conference, proposals and proposals, offers and offers, arguings and arguings (simply) do not constitute a Covenant: Things may be propounded, and yet rejected. Nor doth the liking of what is propounded do it; Approbation and consent of one party, no nor yet his obligation, can (formally) make up a Covenant, but there must be actus mutuus, a mutual consent, a mutual promise, a mutual agreement, a mutual engagement or obligation, and this makes up a Covenant, as to the substance of it. As to the Covenant of Marriage, it is not speaking, nor liking, not promise by one party, but the liking, and consent, and promise must be mutual, else it makes not up the Covenant of Marriage; so it is in this.