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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.
1. Sincerity of intention: God is faithful, (that is) he really intends all the good of which he speaks, and which he promiseth unto you; his heart goes with his word; he doth not speak one thing, and mind another; promise much, and never intend to do any thing; but his word of promise is bottomed upon the real purpose of his will.
1. Sincerity of intention: God is faithful, (that is) he really intends all the good of which he speaks, and which he promiseth unto you; his heart goes with his word; he doth not speak one thing, and minde another; ptomise much, and never intend to do any thing; but his word of promise is bottomed upon the real purpose of his will.
2. Fixedness of resolution; God is faithful, (that is) he is steadfast, he is still 1in the same mind, he is not variable and changeable, he will never alter his word, he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself, 2 Tim. 2. 13.