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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. Then your spiritual condition is everlastingly sure and safe: He hath chosen 1you from the beginning unto salvation, 2 Thes. 2. 13. And his election is unchangeable; he hath promised that whosoever Believes shall not perish, but have everlasting life, John 3. 16. Yea, this is the promise which he hath promised us, even eternal life, 1 John 2. 25. And his promises are unchangeable; he gives you Christ, and all the graces of the Spirit which bring unto salvation; and all his gifts are unchangeable, Rom. 11. 29.
- 1Your spiritual condition is everlastingly sure and safe.
6. Though you be very changeable towards God, yet he is still unchangeable towards 1you; you many times forget him, and fall, and fail, and leave him, but God will never forget you, never falsify with you, leave nor forsake you. 2 Tim. 2. 13. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself: Sometimes you love him more, sometimes less; sometimes you please him, and many times you grieve him; sometimes you keep close in walking with God, and many times you wander from him, yet he is unchangeable. He will not destroy you, because he is unchangeable. If he should change as oft as we do, Now you offend me, now I will be your God no longer; I will love you, bless, preserve you no more; then there were cause of exceeding trouble.