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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.
3. Sacred. As the Covenant betwixt God and man.1
- 1Sacred. Betwixt God and man.
It is observable that there was no state in which man was at any time, but God made a Covenant with him; as soon as he was created, and as soon as he fell, God made a Covenant with him.
It is observable that there was no state in which man was at any time, but God made a Covenant with him; as soone as he was created, and as soone as he fell, God made a Covenant with him.
And Gods Covenant with man (I speak only in the general) doth consist in a 1free promise on Gods part, with a stipulation of duty on mans part. There is a Susception on Gods part, and an engagement on mans part; God promiseth some good, and man promiseth obedience; Their concurrence in these, or their obliging Agreement in these make up the Covenant. God promiseth life and all good to man, and man promiseth all obedience to God; God promiseth what he pleaseth, and requireth what he pleaseth, and man promiseth unto God what God requireth.
- 1In what it consists.