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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.
The causes thereof amongst many others may be these.
1. To put an honour upon his people. Some do derive the word Berith, (which signifies the Covenant) from a root which signifies to purify, and to separate, and to select; and verily, the Lord when he makes a Covenant with any, he doth separate them from others, looks on them, takes them and owns them for his peculiar people, and agrees with them as the chosen and choicest of all others. The first staff in Zach. 11. 10. is called beauty, and this was the Covenant: And indeed it is a high honour to be in Covenant with God, there is a fourfold honour to us in this.
1. To put an honour upon his people. Some do derive the word Berith, (which signifies the Covenant) from a root which signifies to purifie, and to separate, and to select; and verily, the Lord when he makes a Covenant with any, he doth separate them from others, looks on them, takes them and ownes them for his peculiar people, and agrees with them as the chosen and choycest of all others. The first staffe in Zach. 11. 10. is called beauty, and this was the Covenant: And indeed it is a high honour to be in Covenant with God, there is a fourfould honour to us in this.
1. One in that God in this becomes ours, and we are made nigh unto him.1
- 1A fourfold honour in this.