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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.
It is called the promise by way of eminency; it is made up altogether of promises; all on Gods part, which he will do, is under promise; and all on our part which we are to do, is likewise under promise.
Sometimes it is called the mercy and the truth, Mic. 7. 20. Thou wilt perform 1the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham.
- 1The mercy and the truth.
The Covenant is called mercy, because mercy only drew this Covenant; It was mere mercy which moved God to make new bonds with us, yea all mercy is wrapped up in it. And it is called Truth, because the Lord God who makes this Covenant, will certainly and truly perform all that good and mercy, which (in it) he makes over unto his people.
The Covenant is called mercy, because mercy only drew this Covenant; It was meer mercy which moved God to make new bonds with us, yea all mercy is wrapped up in it. And it is called Truth, because the Lord God who makes this Covenant, will certainly and truly performe all that good and mercy, which (in it) he makes over unto his people.