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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.
Consider God either
1. In his essence, so he is unchangeable; the essence of God cannot be changed; 1it is impossible that it should be, forasmuch as every change is either to the better, or to the worse; There cannot be a change in God to the better, because he is in himself an infinite perfection; nor can he be changed to the worse, because then he should not be God, if any defect or want were incident unto him; Besides, in every change there is a new succession for being, or manner of being; but God is eternal, and he is infinite; therefore he cannot be otherwise than he is.
- 1In his essence.
2. In his decrees, so also he is unchangeable; these foundations stand sure, 12 Tim. 19. Isa. 14. 24. Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand. Ver. 27. The Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? The Decrees of God are laid upon the counsel and wisdom of God, and such grounds within himself, that there cannot be any new reason or stronger, to alter his decrees.
2. In his decrees, so also he is unchangeable; these foundations stand sure, 12 Tim. 19.