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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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7. They have immunity from the curse of the Law: Christ hath redeemed us 1from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. Indeed afflictions, and fatherly chastisements, or corrections, may befall the people of God in this life, (whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, Heb. 12. 6.) but no curses befall them. Though the cup be bitter, yet there is no poison in it; though it be a cross, yet it is not a curse; their wounds are healing wounds, and their afflictions are instructions, and their losses are their gains; for nothing comes as a curse which doth us good.
7. They have immunity from the curse of the Law: Christ hath redeemed us 1from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. Indeed afflictions, and fatherly chastisements, or corrections, may befall the people of God in this life, (whom the Lord loveth he chastneth, and scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth, Heb. 12. 6.) but no curses befall them. Though the cup be bitter, yet there is no poyson in it; though it be a crosse, yet it is not a curse; their wounds are healing wounds, and their afflictions are instructions, and their losses are their gains; for nothing comes as a curse which doth us good.
- 1From the curse of the Law.
8. They have immunity from the Kingdom and power of darkness: You are no 1