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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.
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.
Hence also it is called the oath, Luke 2. 73. The oath which he sware unto 1our father Abraham. You do not read of Gods Oath in the Covenant of works (that Covenant wanted a Mediator, and was not sealed with an oath) but in this Covenant of grace there is the oath of God, to declare unto us, and to confirm us, as touching the immutability of his will and purpose, for the accomplishment of all that good mentioned in this Covenant.
Hence also it is called the oath, Luke 2. 73. The oath which he sware unto 1our father Abraham. You do not read of Gods Oath in the Covenant of works (that Covenant wanted a Mediatour, and was not sealed with an oath) but in this Covenant of grace there is the oath of God, to declare unto us, and to confirm us, as touching the immutability of his will and purpose, for the accomplishment of all that good mentioned in this Covenant.
- 1The Oath.