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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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4. The common love of the Trinity assures you against damnation, and perishing; 1and of salvation, and blessedness: Love preserves, but destroys not: love brings us near, but rejects, and forsakes not: for how can it possibly be, that any man should perish and be lost, who is interested in the highest, and dearest, and unchangeable love of God? who hath the ordaining love of the Father unto salvation, and the meriting love of Christ to purchase salvation, and the applying love of the Spirit, effectually undertaking to guide and lead him unto salvation. I confess that if God did not love you, there could be no salvation for you; •or were the love of the Trinity divided and parted, so that though the Father loved you, intending your salvation, but the Son would not undertake it with his love to die for you, to procure salvation; or if the Son and Father would consent in their love, but the holy Ghost would not love you, so far as to bring you into Christ, to be partakers of him, and of salvation, then there would be a manifest uncertainty of your salvation; or if all of them did love you with a changeable love.
4. The common love of the Trinity assures you against damnation, and perishing; 1and of salvation, and blessednesse: Love preserves, but destroyes not: love brings us near, but rejects, and forsakes not: for how can it possibly be, that any man should perish and be lost, who is interested in the highest, and dearest, and unchangable love of God? who hath the ordaining love of the Father unto salvation, and the meriting love of Christ to purchase salvation, and the applying love of the Spirit, effectually undertaking to guide and lead him unto salvation. I confesse that if God did not love you, there could be no salvation for you; •or were the love of the Trinity divided and parted, so that though the Father loved you, intending your salvation, but the Son would not undertake it with his love to die for you, to procure salvation; or if the Son and Father would consent in their love, but the holy Ghost would not love you, so far as to bring you into Christ, to be partakers of him, and of salvation, then there would be a manifest uncertainty of your salvation; or if all of them did love you with a changeable love.