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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Shall now descend to something more special, to show unto you, what that Covenant is which God makes between himself and his people.
I Shall now descend to something more special, to shew unto you, what that Covenant is which God makes between himself and his people.
There are who do distinguish of a twofold Covenant.
1. There is Foedus absolutum, which is such a promise of God, as takes in no stipulation or condition at all, that 1runs altogether upon absolute terms; such a Covenant was that which God made with Noah, that he would never drown the world any more, Gen. 9. 11. and such a kind of Covenant is that, when God promiseth to give faith and perseverance unto his elect, Heb. 8. 10, &c. Both these Covenants are absolute, and without any condition; there is nothing in them but what is folded up in the promises themselves.
1. There is Foedus absolutum, which is such a promise of God, as takes in no stipulation or condition at all, that 1runnes altogether upon absolute termes; such a Covenant was that which God made with Noah, that he would never drown the world any more, Gen. 9. 11. and such a kind of Covenant is that, when God promiseth to give faith and perseverance unto his elect,