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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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4. Give diligence to make out unto your souls this Covenant relation twixt God 1and you; as you have a real interest in God, so rest not until you do attain unto a personal evidence that God is your God, and that you are his people: until you can say as the Church in Isa. 64. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father. verse 9. Behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
4. Give diligence to make out unto your soules this Covenant relation twixt God 1and you; as you have a real interest in God, so rest not untill you do attaine unto a personal evidence that God is your God, and that you are his people: untill you can say as the Church in Isa. 64. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father. verse 9. Behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- 1Make out your Covenant-relation.
Two things I would briefly speak concerning this duty.
1. You may attain unto this personal evidence, and certainty of knowledge; That 1God is your God, and that you are his people forasmuch as
1. You may attain unto this personal evidence, and certainty of knowledge; That