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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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6. It is the distinguishing character of the Covenant. No people are an holy people, but the people of the Covenant, and all those people are holy, 11 Pet. 2. 5. Ye are a spiritual house, an holy Priest-hood. Ver. 9. Ye are an holy Nation, a peculiar people, Isa. 4. 3. He that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy; even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem. 1 Cor. 3. 17. The Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are.
- 1It is the distinguishing character of the Covenant.
Now if God be your God, He is and will be your holy God; He will 1be an holy God unto you, and that affords you many comforts.
- 1Comforts from this, that God will be a holy God to you. He will make you holy.
1. He will make you holy: (They shall call them the holy people, the Redeemed of the Lord, Isa. 62. 12.) He will give his holy Spirit unto you,