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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
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5. In his gifts. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance, Rom. 11. 129. If the Lord calls you to be his people, you shall be his people for ever: And if the Lord give you Christ, and faith, and the other graces of the Spirit, you shall have them for ever; he will not repent that he bestoweth these upon you.
- 1In his gifts.
O what a comfort is this unto the people of God, who have an unchangeable 1G•d to be their God! Not without cause doth the Apostle in Heb. 6. 17, 18. declare that the immutability of God is a choice ground for our strong consolation. You would have but weak consolation (yea, I question whether you would have any consolation at all) if your God were a changeable God; His election of you, would afford you little comfort, if God would change that purpose of his, and after that reject you; his love of you would yield you little comfort, if after that, he would change his love and hate you! his promises of grace and glory, of mercy and life, what comfort would these be to you, if God should alter his words of blessings into words of curses: if he should put in your names in the book of life, and then cross out your names; if he should make his Will, and then alter his Will! Your faith could never be certain, and your conscience could never be settled, and your hopes could never be sure, and your fruitions could never be stable, if your God were a changeable God: But here now is your strong consolation, That your God is an immutable God: His faithfulness is unchangeable, his love is unchangeable, his Omnipotency is unchangeable, his graciousness is unchangeable, his promises are unchangeable.