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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.
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.
And it is called a Testament, and a new Testament, Matth. 26. 28. My 1blood of the New Testament, Heb. 9. 15. He is the Mediator of the New Testament. A Testament is, Testatio mentis, that which we commonly call a mans Will, about the bestowing of his estate amongst his children, &c. The new Covenant is called a Testament, because it is ratified and confirmed by the death of the Testator, and because it is as it were his last Will written down. There are precious Legacies bestowed and settled by God the Father in this Covenant upon all his children, and all of them are confirmed and ratified to them by the death of Christ.