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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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The places above mentioned, do expressly prove it when God saith, I will be their God, and they shall be my people; I will marry you unto my self, and I will bring you into the bond of my Covenant, […]. 20. 37. and we are said to enter into Covenant with the Lord, Deut. 29. 12. These expressions plainly prove a Covenant betwixt God and us. And truly, unanswerable Arguments evince this Truth.
The places above mentioned, do expresly prove it when God saith, I will be their God, and they shall be my people; I will marry you unto my self, and I will bring you into the bond of my Covenant, 〈…〉. 20. 37. and we are said to enter into Covenant with the Lord, Deut. 29. 12. These expressions plainly prove a Covenant betwixt God and us. And truly, unanswerable Arguments evince this Truth.
1. Christ is said to be the Mediator of this Covenant, Heb. 9. 15. Now he could not be the Mediator of this Covenant betwixt God and himself, but of the Covenant 1betwixt God and us.
1. Christ is said to be the Mediatour of this Covenant, Heb. 9. 15. Now he could not be the Mediatour of this Covenant betwixt God and himself, but of the Covenant 1betwixt God and us.
- 1Because Christ is the Mediator of it.