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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.
First, His Will; the will of his goodness is in the making of all his promises; and the will of his resolution is for the performing of them: Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the oath to Abraham, Micah 7. 20.
First, His Will; the will of his goodness is in the making of all his promises; and the will of his resolution is for the performing of them: Thou wilt performe the truth to Jacob, and the oath to Abraham, Micah 7. 20.
2. His unchangeableness or unfaithfulness: I will not suffer my faithfulness to fail, Psal. 89. 33. My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips, Verse 34. He is faithful that promised, Heb. 10. 23.
2. His unchangeablenesse or unfaithfulness: I will not suffer my faithfulnesse to faile, Psal. 89. 33. My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips, Verse 34. He is faithful that promised, Heb. 10. 23.
3. His Power or Omnipotency; being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to perform, Rom. 4. 21. Beloved! your God doth never over engage himself unto you, his goodness doth not surpass his ability; he promiseth unto his people in general, riches of grace and glory; and he hath promised to some of his people in particular, such blessings as exceeded all the possible capacities of reason; and yet he easily brought all about, he performed all; for he is an Omnipotent God infinitely able to do, &c.