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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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Are you willing to receive the Law from my mouth? and to obey my win? and to do all that I command you? though men dislike it, and men reproach you for it, if now you can answer, O Lord we are willing, thus to take thee ⟨p. 110⟩for our God, and in all these respects to be thine, then God will own you as his people in Covenant.
Quest. But O Lord, how shall we be able to compass this, and to attain all this?
Quest. But O Lord, how shall we be able to compasse this, and to attaine all this?
Sol. Nay, that is not the question saith God, but are you willing thus to take me for your God? if you be cordially willing thus to take me, I will be your God, and I am your God; and according to my Covenant, I engage my self unto you, to give you holiness, to change your hearts, and to give you mercy, to pardon your sins, and to give you grace and power to mortify your lusts, and to give you strength to obey my Will, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them all.
Sol. Nay, that is not the question saith God, but are you willing thus to take me for your God? if you be cordially willing thus to take me, I will be your God, and I am your God; and according to my Covenant, I engage my self unto you, to give you holinesse, to change your hearts, and to give you mercy, to pardon your sinnes, and to give you grace and power to mortifie your lusts, and to give you strength to obey my Will, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them all.