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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.
Sol. I will present a few of them unto you.
1. The faithfulness of God is a sure pledge unto you for all your enjoyments: 1It is (if I may so express it) the very seal of God to perform all the Bond of his Covenant; the security which God gives you for all his engagements, as full assurance as God can make for the performance of all his promises; it is a sure foundation for your faith to rest upon, a foundation that cannot be shaken, and which shall never be removed; you are as sure to enjoy all the good which God hath promised to you as God is God, and as God is your God: In hope of eternal life whi•h God that cannot lye, hath promised, Titus 1. 2. God hath promised to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from our sins, and he is faithful to ⟨p. 43⟩forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 1 Joh. 1. 9. God hath promised to sanctify us throughout. And faithful is he who hath called •s, who will also do it, 1 Thes. 5. 24. God hath promised to establish us, and to keep us from evil. And the Lord is faithful who will establish you, and keep you from evil, 2 Thes. 3. 3.
1. The faithfulnesse of God is a sure pledge unto you for all your enjoyments: 1It is (if I may so express it) the very seal of God to performe all the Bond of his Covenant; the security which God gives you for all his engagements, as full assurance as God can make for the performance of all his promises; it is a sure foundation for your faith to rest upon, a foundation that cannot be shaken, and which shall never be removed; you are as sure to enjoy all the good which God hath promised to you as God is God, and as God is your God: In hope of eternal life whih God that cannot lye, hath promised,