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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
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.
3. Because your God hath given unto you that choice grace of faith for this 1end, to act all along upon the Covenant of grace; that he hath given faith unto you, it is unquestionable; otherwise you were not his people; now your faith is given unto you for four ends.
3. Because your God hath given unto you that choice grace of faith for this 1end, to act all along upon the Covenant of grace; that he hath given faith unto you, it is unquestioanble; otherwise you were not his people; now your faith is given unto you for foure ends.
- 1God hath given faith for this end.
One is for entrance, that you might become his people, and choose him for your God.
A second is for acquaintance, that you as such a people might hold communion with such a God.