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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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6. Walk and live like a people who have such a God to be your God in Covenant; 1as your relation is different from all other peoples relation, so your conversation should be different from the conversation of all other people; as your condition is now higher than the condition of other people, (for God exalts you by making you to be his people, so the word avouching signifies in Deut. 26. 18.) so your walking must be better than that of other people; and as your enjoyments and hopes transcendently exceed all other mens, so your returns must be in some proportion answerable unto your great interest in so good a God; and as God by becoming your God makes you high above all Nations, which he hath made in praise, and in name, and in honour, Deut. 26. 19. so hath he formed you for himself, that you should show forth his praise, Isaiah 43. 21. You are a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy Nation, a peculiar People, that ye should show forth the praise of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Which in time past were not a people, •ut are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy, verse 10.
6. Walk and live like a people who have such a God to be your God in Covenant; 1as your relation is different from all other peoples relation, so your conversation should be different from the conversation of all other people; as your condition is now higher than the condition of other people, (for God exalts you by making you to be his people, so the word avouching signifies in Deut. 26. 18.) so your walking must be better than that of other people; and as your enjoyments and hopes transcendently exceed all other mens, so your returns must be in some proportion answerable unto your great interest in so good a God; and as God by becoming your God makes you high above all Nations, which he hath made in praise, and in name, and in honour,