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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. The certainty of destruction which would infallibly have attended you, had not the mercy and grace of God rescued and delivered you; I say, certain destruction to your souls; as there is a certain destruction to the life of our bodies, if we fall into the sea and lie under it.
6. The sweet and immediate communion 'twixt the deliverance from the dominion of sin, and admission to the Kingdom of Christ: It is a translation from death to life. The Apostle joins these together in Colos. 5. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Sonne.
6. The sweet and immediate communion 'twixt the deliverance from the dominion of sinne, and admission to the Kingdome of Christ: It is a translation from death to life. The Apostle joins these together in Colos. 5. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darknesse, and hath translated us into the Kingdome of his dear Sonne.
3. They have immunity or freedom from the damnation meritoriously depending upon the guilt of sin. As salvation depends upon the merits of Christ, so 1doth damnation depend on the merit of sin. There is so much merit in sin, as to render us obnoxious, not only to temporal destruction, but also to eternal destruction; for the wages of sin is death, even that death which stands in opposition to eternal life, Rom. 6. 23.
3. They have immunity or freedome from the damnation meritoriously depending upon the guilt of sinne. As salvation depends upon the merits of Christ, so