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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. Though a sinner hath no deservingness in him, no worthiness at all, yet he may be received into this Covenant of grace: When a poor sinner hears of 1all that goodness which God is, and which God will extend to such as will enter into Covenant with him, and of all those mercies and blessings, &c. O saith he, I shall never have this God, and I shall never enjoy these blessings! what am I but a very sinful creature, worthy to be excluded, and to be denied, but unworthy to enjoy such a God, and to p•••ake of such mercies; sins I have enough for which God may loath me, but worthiness have I none, to give me favour and acceptance in the eyes of God.
3. Though a sinner hath no deservingnesse in him, no worthinesse at all, yet he may be received into this Covenant of grace: When a poor sinner hears of 1all that goodnesse which God is, and which God will extend to such as will enter into Covenant with him, and of all those mercies and blessings, &c. O saith he, I shall never have this God, and I shall never enjoy these blessings! what am I but a very sinful creature, worthy to be excluded, and to be denyed, but unworthy to enjoy such a God, and to p•••ake of such mercies; sinnes I have enough for which God may loath me, but worthinesse have I none, to give me favour and acceptance in the eyes of God.
- 1A sinner that hath no worthiness at all, may be taken into Covenant.A sinner that hath no worthinesse at all, may be taken into Covenant.
S•l. Let me give answer to remove this fear and this vexation out of the heart of the troubled and doubting sinner.