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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. When God makes a Covenant with you, he doth also take in all the creatures, 1and lays a bond of special command upon them to be serviceable to your good: he doth not leave them out, but covenants with them to do you good: This is (I confess) a strange expression that God should make a Covenant with other creatures for the good of service unto his own people; and yet this you may expressly read in Hos. 2. 18. In that day will I make a Covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bow, and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. ver. 19. And I will betroth thee unto me, for ever. ver. 21. And I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. ver. 22. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel.
2. When God makes a Covenant with you, he doth also take in all the creatures, 1and layes a bond of special command upon them to be serviceable to your good: he doth not leave them out, but covenants with them to do you good: This is (I confesse) a strange expression that God should make a Covenant with other creatures for the good of service unto his own people; and yet this you may expresly read in Hos. 2. 18. In that day will I make a Covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bowe, and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. ver. 19. And I will betroth thee unto me, for ever. ver. 21. And I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. ver. 22. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall hear Jezreel.
- 1God makes a Covenant with the creature to be serviceable for your good.