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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.
There is a twofold love in the persons of the Trinity.
1. A natural and necessary love, so they love each other. The Father and the Son and the Spirit do so love one another, as that they cannot but love one another.
1. A natural and necessary love, so they love each other. The Father and the Sonne and the Spirit do so love one another, as that they cannot but love one another.
2. A voluntary and gracious love; with this love all who are in Covenant with God, are loved of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Spirit.
2. A voluntary and gracious love; with this love all who are in Covenant with God, are loved of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Spirit.
This love of the Trinity may be considered both in respect of the properties of 1