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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.
Our obedience is a weak and unsteadfast reason, but Gods grace is a full and constant reason for all our mercies, and for all our pleas, and for all our enjoyments.1
Our obedience is a weak and unstedfast reason, but Gods grace is a full and constant reason for all our mercies, and for all our pleas, and for all our enjoyments.1
- 1Then you have plea enough to deal with God. The immutability or unchangeableness of God.
3. Is the gracious God your God in Covenant? you have then plea enough, and reason enough to deal with God: It is the best plea you can make, Lord, do me good for thine own sake.
9. Immutability, or unchangeableness is another Attribute of God; your ⟨p. 46⟩God is an unchangeable God, and he will be so to you, Mal. 3. 6. I am the Lord, I change not. Jam. 1. 17. With him there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. So Numb. 23. 19. God is not man, that he should lye, neither the son of man, that he should repent.
9. Immutability, or unchangeableness• is another Attribute of God; your