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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
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3. For any sinner wh• hears of this Covenant of grace, and yet excludes himself, 1(as every one doth who refuseth to submit unto the terms of relation) this doth declare exceeding folly; O what folly is it to slight our only help, our only hope, our only remedy, our only salvation? To reject all happiness, and our only happiness.
3. For any sinner wh• hears of this Covenant of grace, and yet excludes himself, 1(as every one doth who refuseth to submit unto the terms of relation) this doth declare exceeding folly; O what folly is it to slight our only help, our only hope, our only remedy, our only salvation? To reject all happinesse, and our only happinesse.
- 1It is exceeding folly to exclude our selves from this Covenant-relation.It is exceeding folly to exc•ude our selves from this Covenant-relation.
Exceeding impiety: Certainly our hearts are unspeakably hardened, or are utterly 1Atheistical, or hellishly desperate, that we care not though we loose our precious souls, and forsake our mercies, and forfeit heaven: assuredly we have sordid thoughts of God, and of the happiness of enjoying God for our God, and of all that God promiseth to give, in that we refuse to be his people, and had rather enjoy our filthy and damning lusts.2
Exceeding impiety: Certainly our hearts are unspeakably hardned, or are utterly