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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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2. They are susceptions of grace; whatsoever promise God makes to you, 1grace is the foundation of it, and grace is in the performance of it. It is freely made, and as freely made good; nothing moved God to make the promises, but his own grace; and there is no reason why we enjoy the good of them, but Gods own grace, I will do you good, and all this good I will do for my own sake; you shall have it as freely as ever child had kindness from a father.
2. They are susceptions of grace; whatsoever promise God makes to you, 1grace is the foundation of it, and grace is in the performance of it. It is freely made, and as freely made good; nothing moved God to make the promises, but his own grace; and there is no reason why we enjoy the good of them, but Gods own grace, I will do you good, and all this good I will do for my own sake; you shall have it as freely as ever child had kindnesse from a father.
- 1They are susceptions of grace.
3. They are full treasures. All my springs are in thee, said David, Psal. 87. 7. 1So may we say of the promises, All my helps, all my goods are in you. The promises as they depend for their constitution upon the love and goodness of God, so likewise upon the prescience and wisdom of God; God foresaw all the exigences a•d wants, and straits of his people, and drew up the promises with sufficient provisions and supplies, and helps, to answer all their conditions. There is not any good whatsoever which you do actually want, or can possibly want, but there is a full stock, and a peculiar supply for it in the promises.