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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.
SECT. XV.
Use. 4 There is yet one Use more which I would make from the consideration of the happiness of being the people of God in Covenant, and of enjoying God to be our God in Covenant.
Use. 4 THere is yet one Use more which I would make from the consideration of the happinesse of being the people of God in Covenant, and of enjoying God to be our God in Covenant.
And that Use shall be a Use of Exhortation, even unto them who are not (as yet) 1the people of God in Covenant; That they would not content themselves in that estate, to be Foreigners, and strangers, and enemies, but that they would beg, and strive to come into a Covenant-relation with God, that they would take him for their God, and submit themselves unto him as his people in Covenant.
And that Use shall be a Use of Exhortation, even unto them who are not (as yet) 1the people of God in Covenant; That they would not content themselves in that estate, to be Forrainers, and strangers, and enemies, but that they would begg, and strive to come into a Covenant-relation with God, that they would take him for their God, and submit themselves unto him as his people in Covenant.
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