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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. And (I if may not be mistaken) it is the binding will, or argument of all the persons, unto which every one of them (as it were) sets his seal, and in which they are all of them bound up, and according unto which every one of them doth act, or express himself for our salvation; O what infinite love, and goodness and wisdom is this, that our salvation should be thus contrived, and ordered, and distinctly undertaken and agreed upon with one common consent of will and purpose by the whole Trinity of persons, every one of them contributing his whole self, and heart, and power towards it! Surely your salvation must be precious, and excellent, and sure, and we our selves as sure in our enjoyment of it.
4. And (I if may not be mistaken) it is the binding will, or argument of all the persons, unto which every one of them (as it were) sets his seal, and in which they are all of them bound up, and according unto which every one of them doth act, or expresse himself for our salvation; O what infinite love, and goodnesse and wisdom is this, that our salvation should be thus contrived, and ordered, and distinctly undertaken and agreed upon with one common consent of will and purpose by the whole Trinity of persons, every one of them contributing his whole self, and heart, and power towards it! Surely your salvation must be precious, and excellent, and sure, and we our selves as sure in our enjoyment of it.
3. There is a conjunctiveness of operation: every person of the Trinity doth act 1or work for the good and salvation, as will and intend it, Joh. 5. 17. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work, verse. 19. whatsoever things he doth, these also doth the Son likewise, John 14. 31. as the Father gave me commandment so do I.
3. There is a conjunctivenesse of operation: every person of the Trinity doth act