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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.
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.
- 1Exhortation to them that are not in Covenant with God; To get into a Covenant-relation.
Now this Exhortation I shall direct unto two sorts of sinners. 1. Unto such as to this day have obstinately refused to become the people of God. 2ly. Unto such who are troubled for their obstinate disobedience, and would fain become the people of God, but are afraid that God will never admit them into Covenant, that he will never be a God to them, &c.
1. Unto such who hitherto have obstinately refused to become the people of God, and to own God for their God in Covenant. What is the Almighty that we should serve 1