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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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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.
2. Great sinners are not absolutely excluded from coming into this Covenant of 1grace; O Sirs, this Covenant is only for sinners, and this Covenant contains an infinite Mediator, and super-abundant riches of grace and mercy, so that the Lord gets him a Name, and a praise, and an honour amongst all the Nations of the earth; and God in this Covenant doth promise to pardon abundantly, to forgive iniquity, transgression and sin, to cleanse from all filthiness, and from all Idols, and to pardon all iniquities whereby we have sinned, and have transgressed against him; Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities, and made me to serve with thy sins; yet I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins: Thou hast spoken, and done evil things as thou couldest; she is gone upon every high Mountain, and under every green Tree, and there hath played the harlot, and I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me! So that it is not the greatness of former sins which make you utterly uncapable of being received into this Covenant: Though a mans sins have been high in their guilt, and multiplied in the practice, and stretched out by many aggravating circumstances, yet if now his soul doth mourn over them, and lament; if now he is willing to give a bill of Divorce unto them, if he sees his former abominations, and loathes them, I dare assure him that God will take him into this Covenant; the Covenant of grace and mercy is set open for him; Come in saith God, I will be merciful unto your Transgressions, and I will receive you graciously, your sins shall be mentioned no more.