A59035:835
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.
1. You have express promises for this in Zach. 13. 9. They shall call upon my Name, and I will hear them, I will say It is my people, and they shall say, The Lord is my God. So Ezek. 34. 30. Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel are my people, saith the Lord God.
1. You have expreesse promises for this in Zach. 13. 9. They shall call upon my Name, and I will hear them, I will say It is my people, and they shall say, The Lord is my God. So Ezek. 34. 30. Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel are my peaple, saith the Lord God.
2. Both the graces of the Spirit, and the testimony of the Spirit can make the Covenant relation evident unto you. The graces in you are the infallible characters that God is indeed your God, and that you are indeed his people. The Spirit of grace is given only unto the people of God, and unto every one of the people of God; and besides that you have the testimony of the Spirit, Rom. 8. 15. Yea have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Gather. Verse 16. The Spirit it self be••eth witness with our spirit, that we are the Children of God.1
2. Both the graces of the Spirit, and the testimony of the Spirit can make the Covenant relation evident unto you. The graces in you are the infallible characters that God is indeed your God, and that you are indeed his people. The Spirit of grace is given only unto the people of God, and unto every one of the people of God; and besides that you have the testimony of the Spirit,