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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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5 There is a common engagement of the whole Trinity unto you; every one of the persons is engaged to you. The Father is engaged to you, to do all that a God and Father can and will do for his children. The Son is engaged to you, to do all that a Christ, and Mediator, and a Redeemer and Saviour can and will do for his Members. The Holy Ghost is engaged to you, to do all that a Spirit of truth, knowledge, faith, comfort, can do for those who do come to the Father and the Son.
5 There is a common engagement of the whole Trinity unto you; every one of the persons is engaged to you. The Father is engaged to you, to do all that a God and Father can and will do for his children. The Sonne is engaged to you, to do all that a Christ, and Mediatour, and a Redeemer and Saviour can and will do for his Members. The Holy Ghost is engaged to you, to do all that a Spirit of truth, knowledge, faith, comfort, can do for those who do come to the Father and the Son.
6. Lastly, There is a communion twixt you and every person of the Trinity, 1 Joh. 1. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 13. 14. 1The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Communions with a Father, with a Saviour, with a Comforter; And verily these communions are most gracious and heavenly in respect of every one of them: when the Father manifests himself unto you in the Relation and Testimonies of your loving God and Father; And whom Christ discovers himself unto as your Head, and as your Lord, as your Saviour, in your interests in him, and his in you: and when the Holy Ghost opens himself unto you in the strengthening of your graces, in his comforts, and evidences, and assurances, and sealings, why! These things are as life to the dead, and as rain to the thirsty land; they are ⟨p. 76⟩