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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. You have this privilege also, that all the seals of the Covenant of grace 1are restrained unto your selves alone: As the Covenant is none but yours, and with you, so the seals of the Covenant are none but yours, and unto you only: The seals of the Covenant are to confirm you, and to assure you, and to revive and comfort you, and to establish you; there is not any ungodly person on the earth who hath right unto the seals of the Covenant, and the reason is because he hath no interest in the Covenant it self; you only are the people of the Covenant, and therefore you only have right to the seals of the Covenant.
7. You have this priviledge also, that all the seals of the Covenant of grace 1are restrained unto your selves alone: As the Covenant is none but yours, and with you, so the seals of the Covenant are none but yours, and unto you only: The seals of the Covenant are to confirme you, and to assure you, and to revive and comfort you, and to establish you; there is not any ungodly person on the earth who hath right unto the seals of the Covenant, and the reason is because he hath no interest in the Covenant it self; you onely are the people of the Covenant, and therefore you onely have right to the seals of the Covenant.
- 1All the seals of the Covenant are restrained to you alone.
8. You have this privilege, that you may expect help from your God, for all the works which you owe to God: You may go to him for grace, for strength, 1for sufficiency to work in you both to will and to do; both to believe and to suffer, Phil. 2. 13