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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.
1. One because God hath made them to be his people which were not his people: which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but have now obtained mercy 1 Pet. 2. 10.
2. A second, because God hath looked mercifully upon as grievous sinners as ye have been, and hath brought them into the Covenant, Ezek. 16. 6. When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live, yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live, verse 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness, yea I sware unto thee, and en•red into a Covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
3. Because you have an express promise that God will make you to be his people, which were not his people, Hosea 2. 23. I will have mercy upon her, that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people, and they shall say Thou art my God.
3. Because you have an expresse promise that God will make you to be his people, which were not his people, Hosea 2. 23. I will have mercy upon her, that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people, and they shall say Thou art my God.